This was borne out in the spring of 1879 in the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City when a hot-tempered buffalo hunter named Levi Richardson and a professional gambler named Cockeye Frank Loving got into a shootout at Dodge City’s Long Branch Saloon. They’d been...
Most people have heard of Calamity Jane, fewer have heard of Martha Jane Canary, her real name. It is sometimes difficult to separate fact from fiction, as the false narrative about her has been perpetuated by the internet, Hollywood and word of mouth. Martha Jane...
Pat Garrett, history, photos, video, and drone footage of his murder location and grave. Las Cruces, NM.Thanks to David G. Thomas, author of KILLING PAT GARRETT, THE WILD WEST’S MOST FAMOUS LAWMAN – MURDER OR SELF – DEFENSE? Billy the Kid biographer...
Jim Dunham, President of WWHA talks about the events that brought about Kevin Jarre to write the script for the 1993 motion picture “Tombstone.” With input from historians and with an understanding of what the clothing, buildings, and 1880 American West looked like,...
Texas Ranger John B. Armstrong, the man who captured “the man-killer” John Wesley Hardin. “Texas, by God!” cried notorious killer John Wesley Hardin when he saw a Colt .45 pointed at him on a train in Florida. At the other end of the pistol stood Texas...
