Clean Shots
The most successful gunfighters in the Old West were firm believers in maintaining their firearms. As the story goes, handsome, homicidal John Wesley Hardin took a break from his notorious rampages and was cleaning his six-gun in his hotel room one day when a bullet...
Not Just a Sea Plague
“Before the railroad, in the days of stage-coaching, the Western traveler subsisted principally on fried bacon and canned tomatoes,” wrote Lt. John Bigelow, Jr. in his book, On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo. “To my mind, this diet is not inferior,...
Saving Grandma’s Cabin
Anybody looking at the rotten foundation logs, the caved in roof, the shoved in southeast corner of the cabin would mark it for demolition. Unless, of course, the old log building represented a piece of family history. Even then a rational person might think it was...
Sweetwater Shoot-out
October 1, 1917 Frank Hamer wants to go home. The Texas Ranger has just testified at the Callahan County Courthouse in Baird, Texas, in a murder trial and the case has been continued. Two men, waiting by a drugstore, warn Frank not to pass through Sweetwater on his...
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