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 [ … ]

It seems that everyone in the Old West had nicknames… And some of them were very strange. But, none was as strange as Charles Bryant’s. He was called Black Faced [ … ]

Wyatt Earp Kills George Hoy? In 1876, Wyatt Earp became a policeman in Dodge City, Kansas. A fellow policeman was Jim Masterson, Bat’s brother. On July 29 1878, Wyatt and [ … ]

On July 17, 1870 Deputy U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok was in a bar in Hays City, Kansas when two of a group of five Seventh Cavalry troopers suddenly attacked [ … ]

 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 [ … ]