Search Results for: New Mexico
Clay Allison Dies
July 26, 1887, The Globe Live Stock Journal, Dodge City, Kansas – Reporting on Clay Allison Dies: Clay Allison, a brave, true-hearted and oft-times dangerously reckless man, when in his cups, has at last died with his boots on, but not by the pistol route. He fell from his wagon in Texas, some days ago, […]
John Tunstall and Billy the Kid
John Tunstall was an Englishman who came to America with some capital to invest. He wandered over to New Mexico where he met a lawyer named Alexander McSween. McSween suggested that there were good business opportunities in Lincoln County. What he probably didn’t mention was that there was a bit of a rivalry, over government […]
Trailing Louis L’Amour From California to Alaska – Part One
THE FRONTIER SPIRIT OF LOUIS L’AMOUR THE LAND OF THE SUNSET SEA By Bert Murphy In five novels Louis L’Amour lets you experience Old California and the Pacific coast circa 1800 to 1880. When the railroad reached California in 1869, it diminished the frontier period. When it reached Los Angeles in 1876, the western frontier […]
Clay Allison – Old West Psychopath
Clay Allison can be truly called a psychopath. At the height of the Civil War when the Confederate Army was drafting into service anyone who could hold a rifle, Clay was released on a medical discharge because he was maniacal. Ending up in Cimarron, New Mexico in 1870 Clay and some other […]
William Brazleton – Masked and Unmasked
William Brazleton was about 6 feet tall, and weighed around 200 pounds. He was described as “a great big, good natured fellow who was as harmless as any man could be.” Little is known about his early life. He did tell a friend that he had robbed a couple of stages in northern Arizona, three […]
