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, [ … ]
Category: Old West Catacombs
Reno Brothers – First Gang to Rob a Train
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, [ … ]
Gambler Doc Holliday as a Marksman
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 [ … ]
Frank James Surrenders
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 [ … ]
Black Faced Charley and Ed Short Kill Each Other
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 Hoy?
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 [ … ]
Wild Bill Shoots Soldiers
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 [ … ]
Denver 1863 Fire
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. [ … ]
Robert Ford – Jesse James Assassin
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 [ … ]
Cynthia Ann Parker Kidnapped Twice
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 [ … ]