Preacher Robber Escapes Conviction of Bank Robbery on the Insanity Plea. April 19, 1895, Deming Headlight, Deming, NM – Portland, Oregon, April 18. – Rev. J. C. Reed, the Baptist [ … ]

Doc Holliday Obituary, originally published in the November 12, 1887 edition of the Ute Chief, Glenwood Springs, Colorado – J. A. Holliday died, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado Tuesday, November 8, [ … ]

On October 5, 1892, the famous Dalton Gang attempted a daring daylight robbery of two Coffeyville, Kansas banks at the same time. They wanted to do something no other outlaw [ … ]

SHE FREQUENTLY VISITS SING SING PRISON. A Mysterious Woman Whose Repeated Visits to the Famous Penal Institution Have Excited Interest as to Her Identity. February 9, 1894, Chief, Red Cloud, Nebraska [ … ]

This is an interview by Henry M. Stanley, African explorer who uttered the famous line “Dr. Livingston, I presume?”  He met James Hickok while working for the Weekly Missouri Democrat.  [ … ]

Here is the answer to our May Outlaws and Villains contest, along with his criminal tie-in to the Old West: Marion Hedgepeth was born and raised in Missouri. As a [ … ]

Wherever Mickey Free went, death seemed to follow. Even when he was a kid.     On January 27, 1861, at the age of 12, Apache Indians kidnapped Mickey. An [ … ]

More firepower was used to kill the subject of today’s story that any other single man in any of the Old West shootouts. When you’re finished I think you’ll agree. [ … ]

William Preston Longley was born on October 16, 1815. We don’t know him as William Preston, but as Wild Bill Longley, a sadistic and murderous Old West gunman. Although little [ … ]

As we all know, if someone kills a lawman, he’ll draw the attention of lawmen everywhere until he’s caught.  In the Old West the same was true of ministers.  And, [ … ]