WYATT EARP’S VENDETTA, 40 min. In the aftermath of the shooting known as the Gunfight at the OK Corral, there were more shootings and killings, including the maiming of Wyatt Earp’s older brother Virgil and the murder of his younger brother Morgan. Historian Dr. Gary...
THE TRAIL TO TOMBSTONE , 58 min. Doc Holliday’s trail to Tombstone began with his friendship with Wyatt Earp and traveled by way of the Arizona Territorial capital of Prescott, where he was acquainted with Acting Governor John Gosper—and may have become part of a...
History and Fiction the oxymoronic blend Most of the aficionados of Western history whom I have met, kick-started their passions for all things Western by watching television in the 1950s and 60s. There is no doubt that the “Era of the TV Western” had a profound...
THE WEST THAT WAS… “America’s Wild West created an untold number of notorious characters, and in southwestern Texas, John King Fisher (1855– 1884) was foremost among them. To friends and foes alike, he insisted he be called “King.” He found a home in the...
Judge Roy Bean: The Alleged Hanging Judge of Langtry, Texas Movies have tried to paint Judge Roy Bean, the “Law West of the Pecos,” as a hanging judge. Bean was more of a blowhard with an uncanny ability to know how much money a defendant was carrying and...
