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 [ … ]
The Real Hugh Glass From The Revenant (2017)
Set against the harsh backdrop of the American frontier during the early 19th century, The Revenant follows expert tracker Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he and his Native American son Hawk (Forrest [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Barbarous Cherokee Death Sentence
December 8, 1894, Times, El Paso, Texas – Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. A story of atrocity, smacking of the usages of a barbarous country, comes from David, a small town in [ … ]
A History of Old West Hats – Part Three
O.K., so you want to get yourself a cowboy hat. Here are some guidelines. Early cowboys spent as much as a month’s pay for their hat. Today it should not [ … ]
A History of Wild West Hats – Part Two
Strong winds tended to create problems for cowboys whether their hats were wide brimmed or narrow brimmed. Originally the brims of cowboy hats were soft so they would fold back [ … ]