A constant fear for western towns was fire. The buildings were wood, and with the dry weather, they soon became kindling. During the Denver 1863 fire that fear became a reality. [ … ]

It was 1882. Two of Jesse and Frank James’ cousins, Robert and Charley Ford were applying for a job. What Jesse didn’t know was that the governor had offered the [ … ]

In 1833, when she was a child, the family of Cynthia Ann Parker and several other families came to Texas. One day when the men were in the fields working, a [ … ]

May 29, 1890, The Daily Citizen, Albuquerque, New Mexico – Several remarkable duels have been fought in the dark. In 1800 Isaac Corry and Harry Grattan engaged in a fierce [ … ]

Richard Demandy held as the Denver Strangler for the Mysterious Murders. April 19, 1895, Headlight, Deming, New Mexico – The fiendish crimes of the Market street strangler will be released [ … ]

Joel Fowler was born in Maryland, and he later migrated down to Texas. He spent some time on the stage as an actor and entertainer. Not able to earn much [ … ]

One of the most daring robberies and attempts to murder ever recorded in the annals of crime in San Francisco, was one which was committed on Commercial Street, between Montgomery [ … ]

April 26, 1892, Daily Light, San Antonio, Texas – A most vicious attempt at a straight razor suicide was made this morning, at 9:45 o’clock, at the boarding and lodging [ … ]

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 [ … ]