He once boasted that he had killed 32 men, and legend has it that he was hanged three times.
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Philip Wells: Wounded at Wounded Knee
The son of a white father and a half-blood mother, Wells nearly lost his nose in the tragic 1890 affair but still managed to be merciful.
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The Last Days of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
After fleeing to Argentina, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid blazed a new outlaw trail that ended in a shootout high in the Bolivian Andes.
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Bat Masterson and the Sweetwater Shootout
Bat Masterson’s legend began at a backwater hamlet in the Texas panhandle when young Bat and a disgruntled 4th Cavalry soldier engaged in a deadly gunfight.
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Fannie Sperry Made the Ride of Her Life
At the first Calgary Stampede, cowgirl Fannie Sperry made the ride of her life.
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Wild Bill Hickok: Pistoleer, Peace Officer and Folk Hero
A legend in his own time,James Butler (‘Wild Bill’) Hickok was no average Joe when he went head-to-head with his enemies–he reportedly could ‘draw and discharge his pistols with a rapidity that was truly wonderful.’
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Fort Worth’s Wild White Elephant Saloon
For three decades, the Main Street establishment offered some of the finest gambling and food in the Wild West, as well as a few shootouts to remember.
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Frontier Lawman Virgil Earp
Virgil Earp enforced the law before and after his famous stint as Tombstone’s marshal.
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Blood Bath at Going Snake: The Cherokee Courtroom Shootout
On trial for murder in April 1872, the imposing Cherokee Zeke Proctor and his supporters took on the rival Beck family and a federal posse in a gunfight in front of Judge Blackhaw Sixkiller.
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Marine Alternative to Search and Destroy
The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Program (CAP) just might have been a viable alternative to MACV’s ‘big battalions’ strategy.