Tag: Wild West

• On This Day in 1881, Billy the Kid cheats the hangman.

  

  John Wesley Hardin. Jesse James. Cole Younger. “Curly” Bill Brocius. Gunslingers, killers, thieves and icons of the Wild West. Of all the Western outlaws none has quite the notoriety of “Billy the Kid.” Questionably accused of killing 21 men (one for each year of his short and violent life), Billy is as much a Wild…

  CrimeScribe

  April 28, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

  Alexander McSween, Billy the Kid, Blazer's Mill, Bob Ollinger, Brushy Bill Roberts, cattle baron, Charley Bowdre, Cole Younger, Curly Bill Brocius, Dick Brewer, escape, Fort Sumner, gallows, Governor Bill Richardson, Henry Antrim, Henry McCarty, Huston Chapman, Jesse James, John Chisum, John Tunstall, John Wesley Hardin, Lew Wallace, Lincoln County, Lincoln County War, murder, murderer, New Mexico, New Mexico Territory, New York, outlaws, Pat Garrett, Paulita Maxwell, Regulators, robbery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Ring, Sheriff William Brady, Silver City, Sombrero Jack, Stinking Springs, The House, the Regulators, Tom O'Folliard, Wild Bill Hickok, Wild West, William Bonney, William H Bonney, Windy Cahill, Wyatt Earp, Young Guns

• Wild West – The ‘Gunslinger’ Myth

  

  The Wild West, home of many colourful (often disreputable) characters. Native Americans, gold prospectors, gamblers, cattle ranchers, miners and immigrants scrambled to extend the new frontier. They spread further West in search of their fortunes. With law-abiding, hard-working citizens came criminals. The most notorious were gunslingers, hired guns who’d rob a bank one month, protect…

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  October 5, 2015

  True Crime

  Abilene, America, Americans, casualties, Clay Allison, coach gun, Colt, crime, Dallas Stoudenmire, danger, Derringer, Dodge City, gunfighter, gunfighters, gunslinger, gunslingers, lawman, lawmen, Marshal, murder, outlaw, outlaws, rifle, shootist, shootists, shotgun, Tombstone, Wichita, Wild Bill Hickock, Wild West, Winchester

• Happy Birthday, ‘Doc’ Holliday, Born Today In 1851.

  

  Wyat Earp on ‘Doc’ Holliday:   “The nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew.”   ‘Doc’ (when asked whether his conscience troubled him):   “I coughed that up with my lungs, years ago…”   John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday, born in Griffin Georgia today in 1851, died in Glenwood, Colorado on November…

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  August 14, 2014

  Odds And Ends, True Crime

  Arizona, Bat Masterson, Ben Thompson, Calanton, Clantons, coachgun, Cowboys, Curly Bill Brocius, Dallas Stoudenmire, Dave Rudabaugh, dentist, Doc Holliday, duel, duels, Florentino Cruz, Frank McLaury, Frank Stilwell, gambler, Georgia, Griffin, gunfight, gunfighter, gunfighters, gunman, gunmen, gunplay, gunslinger, gunslingers, Ike Clanton, Indian Charlie, John Henry Holliday, John Wesley Hardin, Johnny Barnes, Johnny Ringo, Kansas, Las Vegas, Morgan Earp, movies, New Mexico, Pete Spence, pistols, rifle, shootist, shootists, shotgun, Texas, Tom McLaury, Tucson, Vendetta Ride, Virgil Earp, Western, Wild West, Winchester, Wyatt Earp