September 27, 1879, Press, Riverside, California – Then there was narrated a weird story that I had heard once before.  It was about an apparition of a phantom train on [ … ]

Deacon Miller was a little man who was quiet, and never cussed. He dressed like a traveling minister, and was an avid churchgoer. At the same time, this Jekyll-Hyde character [ … ]

It was 1864 in Jackson County, Missouri.  Two men, Dick Merrick and Jeb Sharp had murdered a horse trader by the name of John Bascum.  The two men were arrested [ … ]

Another entry of paranormal occurrences in the Victorian Old West:  October 13, 1892, Daily Herald, El Paso, Texas – A ghastly nightmare has made Mary B. Newkirk, of Seattle, insane.  [ … ]

Although “wilding” was a term of the 1980s and 90s, this teenage gang brought hell down in a thirteen crime spree in 1895.    The Rufus Buck Gang was a gang [ … ]

   George Manuse went under a number of aliases. They included Big Nose George Parrot, Flat Nose George and George Curry. There are even those who confuse him with Harvey [ … ]

    In 1874, Jesse and Frank James were robbing banks and trains to the point that the railroads decided to hire the famous detective group the Pinkertons to hunt [ … ]

On January 21, 1900 Liver Eating Johnson, one of the Old West’s most intriguing and gruesome men, died in a veterans’ hospital in California.  This was a strange ending for [ … ]

On July 20, 1889 Cattle Kate, the first woman in Wyoming, either legally or illegally, was hanged. I think you’ll find her story very interesting. Ella Watson has been described [ … ]

How It Feels To Be Scalped: what follows is a December 20, 1883 article from the San Antonio Light newspaper.  It’s the actual words of a soldier who had been [ … ]