William Vincent Morrison and C.L. Sonnichsen, the men who represented Brushy Bill Roberts and publicized the old-timer’s claim to be...

THIS DAY IN THE HISTORY OF A LEGEND - CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD MEETS BILLY THE KID ***Whether true or not, whether right or wrong, these...

This Day in the History of a Legend Billy Was Bad 'Un (Bisbee Daily Review, Bisbee, Arizona, April 18, 1905, p. 4.) Arthur Chapman...

April 17, 1903 He Looked So Green - The Niobrara Pioneer, Niobrara, Nebraska, p. 3. Pat Garrett, collector of customs at El Paso, Tex.,...

One of the most common tactics of a Brushy Believer, when it comes to defending their position, is the immediate hijacking of any...

In the following excerpt, the son of Newton Jaspar Earp shares a few “recollections” of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. A lot of it has...

The following is an Article from the Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, July 22, 1878. From the Grant County Herald TROUBLES IN LINCOLN What An...

“Big Jim” French, reportedly a half-Cherokee drifter from Indian Territory,[1] was a cowhand employed by John Chisum[2] who joined the...

It’s a commonly repeated tale that in January of 1884, Billy Wilson and Tom Pickett, two former members of Billy the Kid’s gang, showed...

At the end of the Five Day Battle in Lincoln, for most, the Lincoln County War was over. The remaining Regulators, including the Coe...

Sam Corbert continued to find himself embroiled in the violence of Lincoln County. It's said it was Sam who hid "Big" Jim French beneath...

During the winter of 1877, John Tunstall fixated his plans on becoming a landowning rancher in Lincoln County. Alex McSween, who provided...

There were many key players and key factors involved in the Lincoln County War. While powerful men such as Dolan, Murphy, and Catron...

The story goes like this: the photo fell out of one of Doc's books and it was naturally assumed by his family that it was himself and his...

Amelia Bolton was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1862 and travelled to America in 1871 to Fort Stanton, New Mexico Territory, where her...

Before leaving the States and heading back to England in the fall of 1878, Robert Widenmann penned a short "essay" entitled "Border...

George Peppin was a Frenchman born in Chittenden County, Vermont in 1838. By October 2, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company A,...

Below is an account, or a tall tale, of Rufe LeFors, of Texas. It was a cold day when two young men rode up in front of the ranch house,...

Below is a first-person adaptation from an interview and narrative found in Bryan Howard's True Tales of the American Southwest: Pioneer...

I'm not a fan of the general message of the book A Fitting Death for Billy the Kid, by Ramon F. Adams. However, there is a passage about...