Elmer McCurdy is not exactly a household name. In life, Elmer McCurdy was a hard-drinking drifter. In death, he crisscrossed the country touring the carnival circuit, hit the Hollywood scene, [ … ]

William Rogers Tattenborn was a Russian immigrant and Gothic Old West character who wandered around the Southwest. His body contained scars from gun and knife fights. Although he wasn’t a [ … ]

August 27, 1895, Herald, Salt Lake City, Utah – Three murderers were taken out of the county jail by a mob of 230 men at 1 o’clock this morning and [ … ]

The year was 1877. The location was Denver, Colorado. In May, the locals were entertained by midget Tom Thumb in P. T. Barnum’s stage show. Three months later, there was [ … ]

Capital, Mitchell, Dakota, May 15, 1896 – Serial killer H H Holmes, convicted on circumstantial evidence of the murder of Benjamin F. Pitzel, was hanged in Philadelphia Thursday. The execution took [ … ]

July 28, 1896, Record-Union, Sacramento, California – The daring and mysterious outlaw who has terrorized this section of the State for the past six weeks, holding up travelers, singly and in [ … ]

There are several great stories about John Wesley Hardin, one of the Old West’s best-known outlaws. One is how he hunted down and killed Juan Bideno. When Hardin told the [ … ]

Born in New Orleans on June 10, 1833, Pauline Cushman grew up to be a raven haired woman so beautiful that, when arrested as a female spy of the Civil [ … ]

July 26, 1887, The Globe Live Stock Journal, Dodge City, Kansas – Reporting in Clay Allison’s Death: Clay Allison, a brave, true-hearted and oft-times dangerously reckless man, when in his [ … ]

Following are two story takes place  following the Old West execution of the Potts family. June 20, 1890, Elko, Nevada – This has been a sad and a tragic day [ … ]