William Goldman may be best known to Western fans as the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Ten years later, in 1979, he wrote a script...
Two Tom Horns in Film
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Who Assassinated Orly “Ranger” Jones and John A. Tisdale?
One of the big questions about Wyoming’s Johnson County War: who assassinated Orly “Ranger” Jones and John A. Tisdale? Both were small ranchers,...
The Crazy Legend of Red Ghost
As the story goes, a military commander lashed a camel-shy soldier to the back of a camel and sent him off to learn how to ride. Depending on who is...
Doctor George Goodfellow: Gunshot Physician
The frontier was a great place for a doctor to practice....and that’s what many of them did…..practice. In 1880 Tombstone, a town of 2,000 had a...
Edward Doheny
Daniel Day-Lewis, who recently announced his retirement from acting, won a Best Actor Oscar for 2007’s There Will Be Blood. He starred as Daniel...
Drugs on the Frontier
During the 19th century drugs were widely available and affordable. They were often in greater demand than alcohol. Used for medical treatment they...
Curly Bill Brocius: Before Tombstone
His true name remains a mystery. Some accounts say it was William Brocius Graham while others claim it was William Bresnaham or William Graham but...
The Wild Bunch Often Hung Out at Fannie Porter’s Bordello in Texas. Where was it? Movies Say Fort Worth or San Antonio.
The Wild Bunch often hung out at Fannie Porter’s bordello in Texas. Where was it? Movies say Fort Worth or San Antonio. Terry Priddy - Pipe Creek,...
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country is considered a classic. The 1962 film—directed by Sam Peckinpah—starred Joel McRea as a washed up marshall hired to protect...
Apache White Captive Child Santiago McKinn
On a balmy September morning in the little valley east of the Mimbres Mountains in southwest New Mexico, seventeen-year-old Martin McKinn and his...
Lucky Cuss
The tall, lanky prospector brushed back his thick, matted, unkempt hair and looked out across a jumble of high mesa hills, scanning the rough...
Shootouts at High Noon
“The most of the men I have killed it was one or t’other of us, and as sich times you don’t stop to think; and what’s the use after it’s all over?”...