The Yuma Territorial Prison opened its doors and closed in 1909 it didn’t lie fallow for long. Before becoming one of Ar…
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The Legendary Maney Gault Frank Hamer’s best friend and partner in tracking down Bonnie and Clyde should be remembered as one of the greatest Texas Rangers.
White Rabbit On April 1, 1934, 6’2” Frank Hamer was sitting, cramped, in his tiny Ford V-8 automobile in a lonely rivers…
Frank Hamer vs. Bonnie and Clyde When the Barrow Gang seemed uncatchable in 1934, Texas turned to its greatest Ranger to track them down and bring them back, dead or alive.
Frank Hamer’s career began during the closing years of the Texas frontier, and saw him transition from a horseback Range…
Like Ducks to Water The Sydney Ducks took over crime in early San Francisco.
San Francisco was a relatively new town when it was hit by its first organized street gang. The Sydney Ducks arrived at…
Cold-Blooded Conman Greedy Louis Eytinge made Arizona Territory shudder over his psychopathic crimes.
Perhaps the most cold-blooded conman early Arizona ever knew, Louis Eytinge suffered from tuberculosis and had two month…
Curly Bill Brocius Newspapers referred to Curly Bill as "the terror of Cochise County".
The outlaws of Cochise County during the 1880s were a hard breed and the fact that Curly Bill was one of their leaders s…
Wanted, Dead or Alive
It may have been the name of a TV Western, but few officials actually used “wanted, dead or alive” rewards to track down…
James Ford Wreaks Havoc
James Ford led a double life in the early 1800s. He was a landowner, businessman and civic leader in western Kentucky a…
Outlaw Jeff Ake
Jeff Ake was a Texas hard-case. Jeff first ran into trouble in Georgetown in 1868 for disturbing the peace, and later as…
Bad Bill Longley
Bill Longley born into a strong Christian family, he turned bad during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period has been…