The classic image of the stagecoach might be the Concord model but for the crossing the rough western trails passengers were often switched to lighter, celerity or mud wagons. John Butterfield chose Abbot-Downing for his stages. It was because of their suspension...
John Wesley Hardin, the Deadliest Outlaw of the Wild West.Informal interview with Texas Historian David George. A gunfighters weapon of choice and the 1873 murder of DeWitt Co. TX. sheriff “Captain” Jack Helm in Albuquerque, Texas., by shootists John...
Who knew a desperado with the unromantic nickname of “Deaf Charley” and a given name equally as unassuming as Orlando Camillo Hanks, would become one of the baddest boys of the Wild Bunch? O.C. Hanks, not only rode with Butch Cassidy, and other members of the gang, in...
Searching for the grave of legendary lawman “Doc” Shores, Gunnison Co.Famous lawman on the western slope of Colorado. Lawman. He was a well-respected lawman of the early days on Colorado’s Western Slope. He served as the sheriff of Gunnison County...
The Western movie gunfight was a staple of every “Gunsmoke” episode and “Have Gun Will Travel” and almost all of the so called “adult” Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. A basic premise was that the code of the West was that the Lawman or “Good Guy” had to let the bad...
