Guns
What Does it Mean to Go Heeled?
In one of the more memorable quotes from Tombstone, Wyatt Earp—played by Kurt Russell—responds to Johnny Tyler’s bold…
Outlaws
Rufus Buck and His Gang: A Tale of Violence and Frontier Justice
On July 1, 1896, five young men, chained and dressed in black, walked to the gallows at Fort…
Outlaws
Shanghai Kelly: San Francisco’s King Crimp
In the last half of the 1800s, the bustling port town of San Francisco, which grew out of…
Outlaws
Was Ike Clanton Really the Loudmouth Coward of Tombstone?
When the dust settled on the most infamous gunfight in the West, three men lay dying in the…
Outlaws
Curly Bill Brocius: Was He Really Shot and Killed by Wyatt Earp?
William “Curly Bill” Brocius was only on Arizona’s Old West scene for a little more than three years,…
Outlaws
7 Facts about Johnny Ringo You Won’t Learn from Movies
Johnny Ringo was a charismatic, B-list desperado with an A-list reputation in American West history. Best known as…
Outlaws
8 Murderous Facts about John Wesley Hardin
John Wesley Hardin was one of the Old West’s most notorious killers: a ruthless outlaw who once killed…