Let's think this through. I posted a LONG sketch on Tom Horn. The best you can do is to make a post berating its truth value. The majority is, AGAIN, directly quoted. You could have simply ignored it. But you choose to insult me and then talk of polite discourse. Yeah, okay. Sad. I have posted seve...

Chip Carlson also before writing Blood on the Moon wrote Killing Men is my specialty. The amount of research that Chip put into those two books on Horn, leaves little to be discovered. But you have fun with what you're doing, just best not to try and pass your information off as freshly discovered,...

Let's think this through. I posted a LONG sketch on Tom Horn. The best you can do is to make a post berating its truth value. The majority is, AGAIN, directly quoted. You could have simply ignored it. But you choose to insult me and then talk of polite discourse. Yeah, okay. Sad. I have posted sever...

Chip Carlson also before writing Blood on the Moon wrote Killing Men is my specialty. The amount of research that Chip put into those two books on Horn, leaves little to be discovered. But you have fun with what you're doing, just best not to try and pass your information off as freshly discovered,...

I don't know if Chip Carlson is still alive or not, but the two books he's done are about the last definitive word on Tom, and it would be good if Dan Staley would pop in here. But unless and until either of those two confirmed or denied some of this stuff, I wouldn't accept it as the gosple. What ...

Was that a cool run through? Could you smell that acrid smell of gunpowder wafting by or the scent of old worn leather or the sound of a riata cutting the air or the jingle of Mexican spurs? C'mon now, can I get an amen? Horn, of course, was in possession of a Winchester model 94 .30-30 (WCF). But i...

LIFE IS LIKE A MOUNTAIN RAILROAD "The following eyewitness account of the hanging of Tom Horn was writen by John Charles Thompson, a reporter. His account was originally published in the Denver, Colorado, Posse of Westeners. Horn was executed with a new, and supposedly, more humane, method of h...

The best of the circumstantial evidence was this: "Witnesses were adduced that Horn left a sweater in a shoe store in Laramie City which was covered with dirt. The owner and the clerk were so sure that the individual leaving the sweater was Horn that they mailed it to Horn at the Laramie County...

Wasn't Nate Champion a helluva man? Those journal entries are just jaw dropping cool to me. Written in frontier lingo by a truly desperate man. He haf his jaw set and his chin to the wind, I'll tell ya. Tough, tough, tough man. In this image posted below, Nate is in the center. Note the sixgun ridin...

Okay, tonight I'm going to post up some flash quotes and recollections from folks who were there; folks who knew Tom Horn. The Governor of Wyoming via Mr. Irvine, via Mr. Penrose's "Recollections": In 1914, Philadelphia physician Charles Penrose, who briefly accompanied the 1892 invasion o...

We are going to examine whether Horn murdered the 14 year old son of Kels Nickell, Willie. Some of Horn's testimony during his trial for his life in the Willie Nickell murder case. . . the exchange here is between Tom and prosecutor Stoll: STOLL. State your name, occupation and residence. HORN. My n...

[This account was written a while back and made use of an article found here. At the time, I was unaware of the forum section of this site. It is important to read through the entirety of the account as some things are elaborated on as I dug up more.] I appreciate the kind words. Ain't this a specta...

Some of the very real incidents in the old west were so amaxing as to sound like hollywood legend. Billy Dixon being run out of town by a man with a Sharps rifle. Billy Dixon later using a sharps rifle to hit a Comanche at 1 mile. Luke Short's gunfight at close range in Ft Worth with Jim Courtright...

John in MS wrote:Great read! Thanks very much for posting this!

John

Glad you enjoyed it, John!

Thanks - Thet reminds me of when, as a young kid in the 40's, I used to sneak/awake @ night, listening to a "Western" on my bedside radio (turned REAL "low" ). . Glad you enjoyed it! I noticed that when I wrote it, I invited everyone to grab some iced tea and cornbread. :mrgreen:

Quoting Festus Haggen: "You Betcha!

Thank you.

The Mexicans are riled up and the rustlers are too. It is easy to see why the Mexicans are upset when the bullet riddled bodies of the two vaqueros are viewed. Krempkau is at the Inquest and is vigorously advocating the indictment of Stevenson and Peveler, as it has become clear that they are the mo...

VAQUEROS Dallas Stoudenmire stood close to 6' 3" was athletic and fast. He was at times a good man and at times a bad man. He was smart. He was always well dressed. But above all he was tough and he had a mean streak. Stoudenmire had been born in Alabama in 1845 and had entered the civil war as...

Coming up: Contemporary view of where our next blazing sixgun incident occurred. http://www.helloelpaso.com/Images/Buildings/662006El-Paso-1903.jpg A Tough Hombe: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Dallas_Stoudenmire.jpg El Paso. . . April 14, 1881. Grab some Iced Tea and Cornbread, and g...

I have read about this before but not in this detail. Great story. RR7 Much obliged, rangerider! Ben Thompson, tonight. [Edit: Dallas Stoudenmire] Going to go out back and blast the 500 mag and the .45 Colt for a bit. I really need to walk across the creek and down a few tree rats for supper but I ...

Let me know what ya think. . .

So, roughly 101 years ago Big Ben Kilpatrick was free and clear and headed for his brother Boone Kilpatrick's ranch in Sheffield, Texas. It was mid September, 1911. It appears that Ben had made friends with a fellow named Ole Hobek in the Atlanta Penitentiary and the two men were in regular contact ...

On November 5, 1901 Ben Kilpatrick arrested at a St. Louis cathouse, and the next day Laura Bullion at the LaClede Hotel, for trying to pass stolen banknotes from the Wagner robbery. Bullion had $8,500 in bank notes in her possession. She was eventually convicted of forging signatures to the notes a...

The Tall Texan's last ride. The glory days of Butch Cassidy/Kid Curry and their "Wild Bunch" had just faded. The death of Butch and Sundance in South America had drawn the curtain on a melodrama that had been going on for around 46 years. The era of the old style bank/train robbery had giv...

Roger that.

First up, "The Tall Texan" Ben Kilpatrick. If there is any colorful language, let me know, I'll edit it out, unless it is an historic quote.

Here goes!

Edit: Rangers photo above is from 1903, maybe in Sedona. . . I believe it's the Verde Valley Company.

Thought I'd ask before posting. . . I do sketches on outlaws/lawmen/gunman/ranchers/Indian Wars. Post on a couple of gun forums and if there is interest here I will post them. These are serious historical efforts handicapped only by typos :) Chunks of my adult life have been spent in courthouses, li...

JerryB wrote:I sure do like the wood on that Marlin, nice old oil finish looks great. What year is it?

1951 and thanks for the posts!

Welcome to a great forum and you do have some fine rifles. Prayers for your son's healing and for ya'll to stay strong in the Lord. Do you go to Memphis for the treatments? Thank you. Yes. We spent eight weeks there at the beginning. Now my wife and son go once a week, on Thursdays. I stayed the fi...

Howdy!

Thanks, fellas!

The BFR gets the credit for the shooting. Highest praise for the big 500 mag. I love that thing.

One must open up somewhere, so here we go! Purchased my first two leverguns. This one should be at our FFL. It is a Marlin 1895 45-70 22" barrel. MG: http://pics.gunbroker.com/GB/308051000/308051443/pix580406034.jpg This one was just purchased via GB. It is a Marlin 336 RC 30-30 20" barrel...