Blind Guy Driving (film comedy in which Jane has a feature role) has been pushed back to a March 2007 release instead of November of this year. Next, I just...
Counting the Cost of the Gunfight at the OK Corral Written by SJ Reidhead Published October 26, 2006 See also: » Hell.com vs. Heaven.com Alexa Rankings: Who...
11-02-1912 : XIT Ranch sells its last head of cattle On this day, the XIT Ranch of Texas, once among the largest ranches in the world, sells its last head of...
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday on Television and in the Movies Written by SJ Reidhead Published October 14, 2006 See also: » TV Review: Boston Legal - "Fine...
This book by Cindy Peabody is now out and is considered one of the best works out on the daily life of the 1880's Tombstone period since the diary of George...
11-01-1924 : Legendary western lawman is murdered On this day, William Tilghman is murdered by a corrupt prohibition agent who resented Tilghman's refusal to...
November 2, 1880 - Initial results gave incumbent Charles Shibell a slim lead over Bob Paul for Pima County Sheriff. Bob challenged the count, and in April...
The interior of the Rock Creek Pony Express bunkhouse was snug and warm against the turbulent weather outside. Rain pelted the slanted roof in a steady...
Notorious Ladies of the Old West Romantic legends of America's Old West still fascinate the world, with wondrous tales of cowboys, trappers, frontiersmen,...
Gold Fever in the Klondike The Klondike was awash in glittering metal during its gold rush heyday. Men came from around the world under the influence of gold ...
"The sinister Mammy Pleasant," was how one historian described Mary Ellen Pleasant, the Barbary Coast madam who was said to be the wealthiest woman in San...
First Woman Killed in Abilene A prostitute calling herself Louisville Lou was shot and killed by Jenny Lyons, another resident of the Abilene brothels, in a...
The Red Light Life Gamblers, pimps and dance hall owners were common sights at the stage station during the 1800s, meeting the women they had lured from back...
Camille and the Palace Grand Opening night at the Palace Grand featured a banquet with a hundred dollar bill resting upon the plate for each of the 40 guests. ...
Belle Starr's Daughter Notorious outlaw, Belle Starr died as she lived, ambushed on a lonely trail while returning to her outlaw stronghold known as Younger's...
Creole Belles "Steamboat a'comin." These words bring to mind paddlewheels, Dixieland bands, gamblers, and adventure during the golden age of river travel,...
The Golden Courtesan "Two bittee lookee, flo bittee feelee, six bittee doee" went the chant in the Chinatown crib's of San Francisco's Barbary Coast. In the...
The Barbary Coast "That sink of moral pollution," the San Francisco "Call" wrote, "whose reefs are strewn with moral wrecks, and into whose vortex is...
"Wild Bill would have died rather than share a bed with Jane," Colorado Charley Utter asserted after her death in 1903. Others, such as Joseph G. Rosa, Wild...
I'm Murdered "I'm murdered!" The long blade of a knife stuck out of the belly of Edward Baldock as he burst out of the front door of Mexican harlot Belle...
Cripple Creek's Old Homestead The wives of Cripple Creek, Colorado, hated Hazel Vernon, but could not stop themselves from envying her status as the best...
Wichita's Dixie Lee The Civil War provided the most popular alias adopted by prostitutes in the old west, Dixie Lee, not because the ladies were Southern but ...
Taxation in Exile "If it (prostitution) can't be routed out, the vicious vocation should be made to contribute to the expense of maintaining law and order." In...
The Poker Bride Old Warren, a booming gold camp in central Idaho, was almost inaccessible except for a wild, one way journey upon the white waters of the...
The Queen of Sporting Row Until Julia Bulette arrived in Virginia City, the scarlet ladies were confined to C Street and a few cheap "cribs" in which to ply ...
Shady Ladies in the Heart of Amador County Jackson, California, in the heart of Mother Lode country, was once a lively, roaring, gold camp. One hundred years...
Sarah Winnemucca's Fight for Indian Rights "I hate everything that belongs to the white dogs...Oh, I hate them so badly." Sarah Winnemucca had good reason. She...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy Robert LeRoy Parker was born in Beaver, Utah to Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies, English Mormon and...
11-08-1887 : Doc Holliday dies of tuberculosis On this day, Doc Holliday--gunslinger, gambler, and occasional dentist--dies from tuberculosis. Though he was...
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