Kit shut up a troublesome trapper Kit Carson had a gunfight at the rendezvous on the Green River in 1835. A French Canadian named Chouinard got...
Carson vs. Chouinard
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Marshall Trimble
The Kid’s Comeuppance
Pat Garrett takes down Billy July 14, 1881. Billy the Kid had come to the Maxwell house at Fort Sumner to cut a slice of meat. He was barefooted,...
Doc Holliday, Reward Money and Fast-Draw
After a gunfight or Indian attack, what happened to the weapons of the fallen? Edward Presken - Mobile, Alabama To the victor go the spoils. If...
School Days in Arizona
Education was an adventure. The Fourth Territorial Legislative Assembly passed a bill in 1867 creating school districts in Arizona. But it took four...
The Classic Gunfight
Wild Bill versus Davis Tutt. It’s reputed to be the first (and one of the only) Hollywood-style gunfight in the Old West. On July 21st, 1865, Wild...
The Arizona Ghost Story
The truth behind the Red Ghost The legend of Red Ghost began in 1883 at a lonely ranch at Eagle Creek in Arizona. A woman was stomped to death by a...
A Fight for the Ages?
Did Jim Young deck the champ in a Tombstone bout? Tombstone legend has it that in 1882, heavyweight boxing champ John L. Sullivan came to Tombstone...
A Cowboy Legend
Buffalo Bill and the tale of Buck Taylor. The legend began with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19th, 1883. Cody decided to...
Crossing the Canyon
A railroad bridge in Arizona was a major undertaking. When the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (Santa Fe) was building a transcontinental line from...
The Paranormal Prison
The ghosts of Yuma. The Yuma Territorial Prison in Arizona is supposed to be the most haunted place in the area. From 1876 to 1909, 111 prisoners...
He Smelled Like a Skunk
How an animal got the best of a Wild Bunch member. On September 19th, 1900, members of the Wild Bunch were on their way to Winnemucca, Nevada to rob...
Very Cosmopolitan
Tombstone attracted people from around the world. In June 1880, Philip M. Thurmond walked around the newly formed mining camp of Tombstone and asked...