
Real history of the Old West, drawn from actual evidence and primary sources.
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In 1949, an old cattleman named Sam Smith died in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He’d been there since the town was founded, back when it was still called Eddy. He raised alfalfa and cattle, sat on the occasional jury, rode with the occasional posse...
What happened to Billy the Kid’s guns? After all, if Billy the Kid was the most famous outlaw of all time, there ought to be a record of what happened to his firearms. And if there isn’t, well, maybe Pat Garrett didn’t really kill him.
Bi...
Billy the Kid never married, but he was young and charming, and by most accounts, the girls of Fort Sumner enjoyed his company. Which raises a question: did Billy leave any children behind?
Billy the Kid
Probably not, but there are a coup...
The name was supposed to be a joke. As a boy in the Bighorn country, White Man Runs Him swiped candy from a trader’s store, and the shopkeeper came charging after him. In Crow tradition, a name often fastens onto an incident like that, and...
In 1867, on a sandbar beneath a bluff on the Pecos River, a one-armed cowboy did something most of us wouldn’t have survived. With a Comanche war party camped all around him, he stripped down to his hat and his underclothes, slipped into th...
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