The Wild West Extravaganza
True Tales from the Old West!
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June 18, 2025
The Battle of Beecher Island
The late summer of 1868 found Major George Forsythe and his scouts fighting for survival. For nine long days, they hunkered down on a little sand bar as they faced off against an overwhelming force of Cheyenne Dog soldiers. F...
June 10, 2025
John Riley & the San Patricios
The Saint Patrick’s Battalion, also known as the San Patricios, was a hard-fighting unit of foreign soldiers, mostly Irish, who deserted the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War. From the Siege of Fort Texas to the Battl...
June 3, 2025
Whisperin' Jim Smith | Avenging Nemesis
Whisperin’ Jim Smith was a deputy and railroad detective who
was said to have written more red history with his pistol than any two men of his time, who had enough dead outlaws to his credit to start a fair-sized
graveyard. D...
May 27, 2025
Mart Duggan | Leadville's Deadly Marshal
For a brief period in the 1870s, Mart Duggan served as the lone vestige of law and order in the violent boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. Originally from Ireland, Duggan got his start out West prospecting for gold. He quickly ...
May 20, 2025
Seth Bullock | Deadwood's Sheriff
Seth Bullock first pinned a badge in Montana, where he presided over the territory’s very first legal execution. That’s in addition to serving as a territorial senator and establishing Yellowstone National Park. Bullock then ...
May 14, 2025
Richard "Two Gun" Hart | Gangsters VS Cowboys
By the mid-1920s, Al Capone was the undisputed kingpin of Chicago and was working feverishly to expand his empire. The only thing standing in the way of his ambitions was an overzealous Nebraska lawman known as Richard “Two G...