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B is for Boot Hill
Boot Hill – the very name screams Old West. And the very first Boot Hill sprang up outside another emblem of those days, Dodge City. The first grave was dug there in...
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C is for Colt
Image Courtesy icollector.com Colt – it was the Gun that Won the West. The Colt .45, or Peacemaker, was developed in 1869 for sale to the Army. The quality and ease of use of the single action...
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D is for Doc Holiday
Doc Holliday – Okay so I am cheating here a bit. His real name was John Henry Holliday, but he has come down to us simply known as Doc. He is famed as the sidekick to Wyatt Earp, but in truth was a far...
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E is for the Earps
Earp Brothers – Since my D blog was Doc Holliday it seems only fitting the Earp Family (mother and father pictured above)should be next. If not for the outsized stories of one gun fight, this clan...
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G is for Gunfight
G is for gunfights – Gunfights in the Old West were almost nothing like they’ve been re-imagined in Western novels and films. The closest thing that comes to the classical idea of two men squared off...
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W is for W____r
W is for… Well, my theme for all posts comes from my love of the Old West and that is where we will wind up. But first we must meet Owen. Owen was born in Philadelphia, his parents’ only child. His...
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Mysterious Mr Woodson
On March 11, 1881, Alexander Smith, Army paymaster, swung into the saddle in Florence, Alabama bearing $5200 in government payroll. He trotted along the Muscle Shoals Canal tow path several miles from...
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