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 [ … ]
Category: Old West Catacombs
Pauline Cushman – Female Spy of the Civil War
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 [ … ]
Clay Allison’s Death
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 [ … ]
Potts Family to Hang – Old West Execution
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 [ … ]
Billy the Kid Kills A Sheriff
The Lincoln County War was going full tilt. William Brady was the sheriff of Lincoln County. Brady was known to be in the pocket of the Murphy-Dolan faction… the bad [ … ]
Cherokee Bill – “I Came Here To Die”
In the Old West it seemed necessary to have the appropriate name before a person could make a reputation. That sure was true with a man named Crawford Goldsby, and [ … ]
Wild Bill Hickok Married
Wild Bill Hickok married? Wild Bill had lived the life of a free-spirited man hunting buffalo, being a lawman, gambling and even a stint as an actor. By the time he was [ … ]
John Daly and the Vigilante Justice Committee
John Daly was born in New York. As a young man, he migrated to California. Leaving a string of dead men behind him, he then went to the gold mining [ … ]
Old West Woman Killer Constable Alexander
One of the codes of the Old West was that women were not to be hurt. In an incident that took place near Yuma, Arizona on February 7, 1901, that [ … ]
John Heath and the Bisbee Massacre
On December 16, 1883, five masked men attempted to rob a store in Bisbee, Arizona. The robbery went bad, and the masked men started shooting at bystanders. They killed two [ … ]