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Cowboy Coffee

Cowboy Coffee

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

“Tea must be universally renounced . . . and the sooner the better,” wrote John Adams, enroute to the first Continental Congress in 1774. Patriotic Americans agreed and embraced coffee as their favorite drink. To the American colonists, tea was a detested symbol of...
Caught in the Crossfire

Caught in the Crossfire

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

One hundred years ago, Willie Nickell, the 14-year-old son of a contentious homesteader who had brought sheep into cattle country, was murdered on July 18 near the family homestead in the Iron Mountain region northwest of Cheyenne. After a six-month investigation,...
Head’em Up, Move’em Out!

Head’em Up, Move’em Out!

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

The Santa Fe Railroad, in 1873, ceased construction of its main transcontinental line at Dodge City, Kansas, for three years due to a national financial crisis. As a result, Dodge City, the only available shipping point for southern cattle, became the largest cattle...
Dodge & Burn

Dodge & Burn

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Travel & Preservation

“Our Land Marks Gone,”. . . the headline blared in the Globe Live Stock Journal on Tuesday, December 1, 1885. “THE FIRE FIEND WIPES OUT THE BUSINESS HEART OF OUR TOWN.” For residents of Dodge City, Kansas, the news seemed all too familiar. The conflagration of...
Smoking Gun

Smoking Gun

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Inside History

Surprising new evidence has surfaced in the Wyatt Earp claim that he killed Curly Bill. Wells Fargo historian, Robert J. Chandler, accidentally found an entry in the original Cash Books that points to a stunning possibility. The entry seems to indicate that Wells...