Perry Mallon nearly ended Doc’s career. July 30, 1882. Flim-flam man Perry Mallon is arrested in Toledo, Ohio on charges of being a "suspicious...
Doc Holliday and the Con Man
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Bat Masterson
An Aborted Train Robbery
Dave Rudabaugh and company are foiled by a night operator. January 28, 1878. Dave Rudabaugh and a handful of hard cases try to hold up the depot and...
They Called Him Bat…
The birth of an Old West legend. November 26, 1853. William Barclay (Bat) Masterson is born in Henryville, Quebec. He goes on to a varied career in...
Sadie Earp
Sadie was already turning tricks when she was a young teenager. She was a free spirit who took up acting in a traveling show. There were few career...
Billy Dixon’s “Shot of the Century”
The 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge reserved much of the Texas Panhandle as hunting lands for the Indians, however white buffalo hunters ignored the...
Justice Served
Ten U.S. Marshals and Deputy U.S. Marshals who defined the legendary West All Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell and All Images Courtesy True West...
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson’s most recognized photo was of a dapper-looking fellow wearing a derby hat, but photos can be deceiving. In the real West was the real...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. The Revenge...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. The Oklahoma...
Battle of the Plaza
Bat Masterson vs. Peacock & Updegraff Things Go Lickety-Bang! Bullets Careen into the Long Branch Traveling mostly by rail, Bat Masterson...
Bat Masterson
The deadly and dangerous life of the man who invented Wyatt Earp. Thanks to a 1960s television show starring Gene Barry, Bat Masterson was called a...
Gunpowder and Smoke
The West was immense, and frontier law enforcement sparse. Wise individuals carried firearms and knew how to use them. Some men and women became...