Lawyer James Jarrott was an entrepreneur, using state laws to acquire rights to a large amount of land in the Llano Estacado in northwest Texas. In...
November 17, 1855. Sporting man Charles Cora brutally murders an unarmed US Marshal William Richardson in San Francisco. The two had some previous...
I don't know if anyone recorded the number of dishonest wagon masters, but in the hundreds of wagon trains heading to Oregon or California there...
Bill Longley was a killer who tried to change at the last minute. The Texas hard-case claimed to have killed 32 men between 1868 and 1877 (the real...
David McCanles—later killed by Wild Bill Hickok—was a bully. In late 1859, he caught one of his Nebraska ranch employees drunkenly sleeping on the...