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Wild West
April 2007
Peter Brand |
Wyatt Earp's Vendetta Posse The blood of his brothers Virgil and Morgan was on Cowboys' hands, and the time had come for Wyatt Earp, with a little help from his gun-toting friends, to gallop around the legal system in search of raw justice in Arizona Territory.   |
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Ben T. Traywick |
The Real Doc Holliday Southerner John Henry -- better known as Doc Holliday -- became a dentist, went West for his health and was soon transformed into a legendary killer. But just how deadly was he? |
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Roger Jay |
'The Peoria Bummer': Wyatt Earp's Lost Year The future lawman and O.K. Corral legend was seized in several 1872 police raids -- twice at brothels in Peoria, Ill., and once on a floating brothel downriver. |
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Roger Jay |
The Gamblers' War in Tombstone Before the bloody feud with the Cowboys reached a head, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and other 'Easterners' had to deal with the 'Slopers,' sporting men who had operated on the Pacific Coast. |
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P.A. Mallory |
The Dodge City War When saloon owner Luke Short was told to get out of Dodge in 1883, he went. But he soon came back, and he was joined by the likes of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday. |
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Ben Traywick |
Boothill The old cemetery boasts graves of Clantons, McLaurys and other legendary Tombstone characters -- not to mention some of the world's most famous (and funny) epitaphs. |
Wild West
October 2005
Roger Jay |
Reign of the Rough-Scuff: Law and Lucre in Wichita Wyatt Earp and other lawmen 'disciplined' the Texas drovers who sought entertainment at the end of the trail, and also fined those in the Kansas cow town who provided the entertainment. |
Wild West
October 2007
Pam Potter |
Wyatt Earp in Seattle Best known for the 1881 street fight in Tombstone, the much traveled Wyatt Earp became part owner of a gambling house in Seattle near the turn of the century. |
Wild West
February 9, 2005
R.K. DeArment |
No Sure Bet: Gambling on the Frontier Recreation in the Old West oftentimes meant betting on the turn of a deck of cards. But for many colorful Westerners, gambling was a serious, sometimes deadly, business. |
Wild West
April 2007 |
Letters from Readers Ike Story Liked... West Fuller... Jesse and the Map... Great-Granduncle... |
Wild West
October 2006 |
Wyatt Earp's First Star Young Wyatt Earp wears his badges well. Here, a rare photo of Earp as a young boy shows him wearing two stars on his shirt and carrying some rope in his pocket just in case of trouble. |
