A cow camp grew up from a cattle trail crossroads. Picture Horsehead Crossing of the Pecos River with a herd of parched cattle stampeding to the...
Pecos, Texas
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Pecos
Do it Yourself
Hired assassin Jim Miller (photo) sometimes sublet his killing contracts. In 1896, he sent John Denson and Bill Earhart to kill Barney Riggs, a...
Ketchum and Hamer
Two legendary Old West names came together in 1900. In 1900, sixteen-year-old Frank Hamer—later a Texas Ranger legend--was severely wounded by Dan...
Roy Bean The Law West of the Pecos
Movies have tried paint Judge Roy Bean, the so-called, "Law West of the Pecos," as a hanging judge. Bean was more of a blowhard with an uncanny...
Ambushed on the Pecos
The Courageous Life and Death of Oliver Loving In 1867, beneath a bluff a few miles from Carlsbad, New Mexico, two Texas cattlemen—one of them a...
Picked The Wrong Man A killer for hire had the tables turned.
Bill Earhart was a shootist who helped out “Killin’” Jim Miller on occasion—either as a lookout or assassin for hire. Miller wanted him and a cohort...