Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Most Wanted Bandits! True facts about The Wild Bunch. Historian and author Mike Bell tells the true story about Butch, Sundance, and the Wild Bunch. At one time the most wanted men in the West who were made into heroes by...
Wyatt Earp! A Fearless Man. Gunfight at the OK Corral. Famous Gunfighter and American Legend. Wild West History Association interview with Wyatt Earp trilogy author Mark Warren, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist, a 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner and an “Editor’s...
Former Texas State Historian Bill O’Neal tells the story of Sheriff Albertus Sweet who during a 1881 gunfight was shot to death. Albertus began his career in Lampasas and later in Belton, Texas. In the 1870s, Lampasas was “The Gunfighter Capitol of...
Ed Fletcher, a former buffalo hunter and scout, from 1875 to 1890, ran the Fletcher and Donley Station, a stage station along the Dodge City-Mobeetie line.1 Edward Houston Fletcher, born August 30, 1848, in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, was the oldest child of...
Every few years the mystery of who was Etta (Ethel) Place comes around to Ann Bassett of Brown’s Park, Colorado. The supposition is Ann’s presence in Brown’s Park, one of the many hideouts for the Wild Bunch, as well as her claims to romantic involvements with members...