Just when everyone thought the wild Old West was gone, in 1899 a small slight woman outlaw by the name of Pearl Hart and her boyfriend held up a stagecoach [ … ]

We all think of Doc Holliday as a deadly shootist, killing scores of men. But, in this case our thinking is wrong. In reality, it can only be verified that [ … ]

April 20, 1886, Globe Live Stock Journal, Dodge, Kansas – On last Thursday evening at about six o’clock, another Dodge City shooting took place on the south side of the [ … ]

JOSIE EVANS, A BORN THIEF, DEFEATS JUSTICE. Wanted for Grand Larceny She Goes to the County Hospital to Pass Her Few Remaining Days. September 12, 1898, Republican, Phoenix, Arizona – Occupying [ … ]

The murdering Bender family comprised of Ma & Pa, their daughter Kate and son John Jr., arrived in the Cherryvale, Kansas area in 1871. They opened the Bender Inn, serving [ … ]

March 3, 1882, Fort Grant, Arizona Territory – Indian scouts hanged: Dead Shot, Dandy Jim and Skippy, were hanged here today in the presence of about 200 persons, mostly soldiers, for [ … ]

ONE IS DEAD AND THE OTHER IS IN JAIL. It is Not Known How Much Booty They Secured as the Survivor of the Trouble Refuses to Talk. February 10, 1895, [ … ]

A short-lived, but very active gang of the 1860s was the Reno gang. They were the first gang to rob a train. They also engaged in crimes of all kinds, [ … ]

The date is October 11, 1880. The location is the Oriental Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. As usual, gambler Doc Holliday is playing poker and deep in the bottle. After Holliday [ … ]

Six months after a member of his own gang shot Jesse James in the back, and after committing at least twenty robberies, on October 5, 1882, Jesse’s brother Frank James [ … ]