Outlaws Archives - OldWest American West History & Wild West Legends Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:50:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.oldwest.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-OW-Favicon-1-150x150.jpg Outlaws Archives - OldWest 32 32 Rufus Buck and His Gang: A Tale of Violence and Frontier Justice https://www.oldwest.org/rufus-buck/ https://www.oldwest.org/rufus-buck/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:04:17 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=6682 rufus buck gang

On July 1, 1896, five young men, chained and dressed in black, walked to the gallows at Fort…

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]]> https://www.oldwest.org/rufus-buck/feed/ 4 Shanghai Kelly: San Francisco’s King Crimp https://www.oldwest.org/shanghai-kelly/ https://www.oldwest.org/shanghai-kelly/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:46:13 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=6013 james shanghai kelly san francisco

In the last half of the 1800s, the bustling port town of San Francisco, which grew out of…

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]]> https://www.oldwest.org/shanghai-kelly/feed/ 0 Was Ike Clanton Really the Loudmouth Coward of Tombstone? https://www.oldwest.org/ike-clanton-tombstone/ https://www.oldwest.org/ike-clanton-tombstone/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:18:48 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=4593 ike clanton tombstone az

When the dust settled on the most infamous gunfight in the West, three men lay dying in the…

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]]> https://www.oldwest.org/ike-clanton-tombstone/feed/ 1 Curly Bill Brocius: Was He Really Shot and Killed by Wyatt Earp? https://www.oldwest.org/curly-bill-brocius/ https://www.oldwest.org/curly-bill-brocius/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:08:46 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=2316 curly bill Brocius

William “Curly Bill” Brocius was only on Arizona’s Old West scene for a little more than three years,…

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Johnny Ringo was a charismatic, B-list desperado with an A-list reputation in American West history. Best known as…

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John Wesley Hardin was one of the Old West’s most notorious killers: a ruthless outlaw who once killed…

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