Former lawman Frank Canton was seeking a pardon for crimes—murder, rustling, robbery—that he’d committed in Texas in the 1870s under the name Joe...
A Clean Slate Frank Canton wanted a pardon for his crimes—or else.
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Lawman
No Craven Coward Frank Canton showed guts in facing down Ben Cravens.
Lawman Frank Canton was a lot of things—but he certainly had guts. It was May 1894, and Deputy U.S. Marshal Canton was tracking career criminal Ben...
Wyatt Earp: Good Guy Or Bad? “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for him and Doc Holliday. Why is he considered a great man today?”
A True West reader asked me the other day, “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for...
An Old Lawdog On The Hunt Wyatt Earp picked up a gun again at age 62.
In October 1910, Old West lawman Wyatt Earp—at age 62—almost got into one more gunfight. Earp was asked to head up a special posse to protect...
Virgil Returns
The former lawman’s eight years in Yavapai County may have been the best of his life.
Birth Of A Lawman
Civil War veteran Virgil Earp was just settling down in Prescott when he joined a posse. his life was never the same.
Vengeance For Flat Nose Kid Curry got revenge for his outlaw mentor.
Outlaw George Curry was better known as “Flat Nose” because of a facial deformity. In the 1880s, he was a criminal mentor to Harvey Logan, who...
Didn’t Have A Prayer George Wilson called out to God, and then…
A Prescott, Arizona Territory posse was after George Wilson and his pal. They’d murdered a man in October 1877. Virgil Earp was deputized—his...
Phantom Of The Desert
The Apache Kid is as elusive in death as he was in life.
Well-Heeled, Bedraggled and Badged
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Ask the Marshall
Did any Western lawmen have a reputation for shooting first, and asking questions later, when it came to suspects?
A Bad Boss
Commodore Perry Owens—as sheriff of Apache County, Arizona Territory—had a reputation as a deadly man. But he was also known as a bad boss. Less...