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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?   |
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. |
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
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. |
Wild West
December 2003
Roger Jay |
Spitting Lead in Leadville: Doc Holliday's Last Stand Although his glory years in Tombstone were behind him, down-on-his-luck Doc Holliday delivered a parting shot or two in Colorado. |
Wild West
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
Paul & Carlisle |
Gunfighters and Lawmen: Virgil Earp The brother of Wyatt enforced the law before and after his famous stint as Tombstone's marshal. By 1890, his lawmen days were almost over, but not so his adventures. |
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
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
Roger Jay |
A Close Shave for the Barber of Dodge City John Tyler, a former slave who owned a barber shop in early Dodge City, killed a white farmer on Front Street and then held his ground with the unexpected support of some leading citizens. |
Wild West
Richard F. Selcer |
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. |
Wild West
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. |
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. |
Wild West
Gregory Lalire |
Letter From Wild West - February 2008 No other town better defines the Wild West than Dodge City, Kan. |
High on Adventure
April 2001
Lee Juillerat |
History For The Ages Springtime Lessons Old and New in Southeastern Arizona... |
