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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

Did a Dose of Dragon’s Blood Kill Buffalo Bill Cody? During the Christmas festivities of the year 1900, the great scout, showman, and Medal of Honor recipient William Frederick “Buffalo [ … ]

December 5, 1897, Call, San Francisco, California – Black Jack’s gang was seen camped twenty miles south of here, across the line, today by a prominent cattleman on his way [ … ]

For almost 50 years the Santee Sioux, located in Minnesota, were mistreated by almost everyone with whom they came into contact. First, white settlers invaded the Minnesota Valley where they [ … ]

Tom Hodges (aka Tom Bell) was a brilliant surgeon who served in the U. S. Army during the Mexican-American War. In 1855 he gave up his medical practice and headed [ … ]

In 1867, at the age of twenty, Seth Bullock left Canada to come down to the Montana Territory and do some gold mining. Four years later he was elected to [ … ]

Clay Allison can be truly called an Old West psychopath. At the height of the Civil War when the Confederate Army was drafting into service anyone who could hold a [ … ]

This Doolin Gang shootout occurred in 1893, but first some history. In the fall of 1892 Bill Doolin formed a gang that robbed trains and banks, causing enough havoc to [ … ]

April 9, 1889, Daily Record-Union, Sacramento, California – Mrs. Mary Sanders was shot and probably fatally wounded last Saturday night by her husband, who then attempted to commit suicide by [ … ]