A few years ago I received a question about the science of hanging and whether or not there was such a thing as a “traveling hangman.” The mythical...

A few years ago I received a question about the science of hanging and whether or not there was such a thing as a “traveling hangman.” The mythical...
There is so much discrepancy in the dollar figures in these robberies. Authors disagree by tens of thousands of dollars on the amounts taken. I...
The end of the Pleistocene epoch, a geological period spanning roughly 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago brought about climate change to animals in...
Bat Masterson’s history in the Old West was every bit as illustrious as Wyatt's and in the early 1900's he was actually more famous than Wyatt. Bat...
Phin Clanton was the oldest of the Clanton boys. He managed to avoid the notoriety of his brothers Ike and Billy—mostly because he wasn’t at the OK...
It’s estimated the James-Younger gang took in about $200,000 during a fifteen-year career. The Younger brothers were captured after Northfield in...
It was 1885, and Cow-boys Ike and Phin Clanton were living in Apache County, AZ, raising cattle and goats. On December 27, allegedly, several men...
Pete Spence is best known for his time as a Cow-boy in the Tombstone time of troubles. He may have been involved in the shooting of Virgil Earp and...
Not everyone was cut out to be a train robber as it did require a certain amount of talent. A couple of Cochise County cowboys-turned-train robbers...
Hollywood movie sets were built pretty similar. They always had a window in back because the script called for a crony to slip them a pistol or...
Goldfield, NV was one of the great boomtowns of the early 1900s. Gold was discovered in 1902. Within four years, it had 30,000 residents—including...
A tale is told that Billy the Kid along with a few of his Regulators raided a ranch near Lincoln and rustled some livestock. They drove them over to...