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Rowdy Joe Lowe ended up with a woman hurt in his gunfight.

A legendary lawman took issue with a controversial bounty system.

Two legendary Old West names came together in 1900.

The Blonger brothers even outdid Soapy Smith.

The pandemic led to around 1m UK adults learning an instrument and many taking music lessons.

A doctor and pastor found little healing during the Lincoln County War.

A wild ride and a famous writer made a name for a stage driver.

True West Magazine Ike Clanton After the Earps had left southeast Arizona, Ike Clanton made his way northeast. He helped set up a rustling ring in Graham and Apache counties.  The law was on the lookout for him. But local ranchers took things in their own hands. They hired a stock detective named Jonas “Rawhide Jake” Brighton to bring down the gang—dead or alive. Brighton and another deputy caught up with Clanton near Eagle Creek on June 2, 1887. Clanton made a run for it but Brighton gu...

True West Magazine Wyatt Earp Wyatt Earp approached Ike Clanton on June 2, 1881. He offered a deal: if Ike would turn over his friends who’d robbed the Benson stage six weeks earlier, Wyatt would give him the $6000 reward. Earp was hoping that a high-profile arrest would propel him into the sheriff’s office. But the three robbers were killed within weeks of the offer. Ike accused Earp of telling others about the deal—which put Clanton in danger with other Cowboys. The whole affair was ano...

Search for: Ben Thompson Kills a Theater Owner – Take 1 A shooting in Austin foreshadowed a later event in San Antonio. Gunfighter Ben Thompson is well-known for killing Jack Harris, owner of San Antonio’s Vaudeville Theater in 1882—mostly because it led to Thompson’s death in 1883. But there was a similar incident several years earlier. Thompson and friends were partying at the Capital Theater in Austin on Christmas night in 1876. A fight broke out. Theater owner Mark Wilson opene...