The outlaws of Cochise County during the 1880s were a hard breed and the fact that Curly Bill was one of their leaders s…
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The Outlaw King of Galeyville
Galeyville, on the eastern slopes of the Chiricahua Mountains wasn’t much different from other tent camp mining to…
A Preacher Comes to Helldorado: Part II
Among the Reverend Endicott Peabody’s friends in Tombstone was Wyatt Earp and his brothers Virgil and Morgan. Some sixty…
battle of adobe walls
If you visit Tombstone’s Boot Hill Cemetery, you’ll find a marker for John Heath. He was the brains behind the so-calle…
Entertainment and the Arts
Back in the days before radio, movies and television, lectures were a popular form of entertainment in Arizona communiti…
Virgil’s Sixgun At the Old West’s best-known gunfight, Virgil Earp may have used this state-of-the-art sixgun.
Although the infamous Gunfight Near the OK Corral is arguably the best known and most written about shootout in the Old …
Ike Clanton’s Last Ride
Ike Clanton managed to survive the “Gunfight Near the OK Corral” by running away after the shooting started and Wyatt Ea…
O.K. Fight The Earps & Doc Holliday vs The Clantons & McLaurys
“Three Men Hurled into Eternity in the Duration of a Moment” October 26, 1881 The Earp brothers and John Henry “Doc” Hol…
A Short Storm at a Deadly Address
On February 25, 1881, after an earlier altercation inside, faro dealer Luke Short, shot and killed fellow gambler Charle…