Legends of The Old West

Wyatt Earp - The Real Story of The Legend (WILD WEST HISTORY DOCUMENTARY) ================================ 

Wild Bill Hickok, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill   ==========================

Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly (1849-1928) was an American soldier, hunter, scout, adventurer and administrator. He served briefly in the American Civil War and then in an 1898 expedition to Alaska. He commanded a U.S. Army company in the Philippine-American War and later served in the civilian administration of the Philippines. **********************

Choctaw Bill, Mora, NM; 1920's  =========================

John Wesley Hardin Portrait “The Deadliest Gunslinger”. Digital art by CainandToddBenson.com **************

Pauline Markham (1847-1919) She was a singer and burlesque dancer. She was a member of the Lydia Thompson troupe. Pauline was responsible for bringing Josephine "Sadie" Earp to Tombstone, AZ who eventually became Wyatt Earp’s wife. Pauline supposedly had relations with several Northern Generals and Reconstructionists after the Civil War. ===================== 

Buffalo Bill and John Y. Nelson with the Deadwood Stage   =====================

  Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Moses, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's "amazing talent" and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar. Perhaps Oakley's most famous trick was her ability to repeatedly split a playing card, edge-on, and put several more holes in it before it could touch the ground, while using a .22 caliber rifle, at 90 feet (27 m). Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley +++++++++++++++++++++

  Tom Rynning was appointed second captain of the Arizona Rangers in 1902; the following year, he posed for this photograph. Rynning was in the U.S. Cavalry during the Indian Wars, where he was engaged in 17 battles across the West. He was a lieutenant in the Rough Riders and was appointed to lead the Rangers by Gov. Alexander Brodie, who was his lieutenant colonel in the Rough Riders. ============================

  Mary Fields was born a slave on this date in 1832. She was a Black entrepreneur and stagecoach driver. Fields was a gun-totin' female in the American Wild West who was six feet tall, powerful, and she carried a pair of six-shooters and an eight or ten-gauge shotgun. Mary became a U.S. mail coach driver for the Cascade County region of central Montana in 1895.  She and her mule, Moses, never missed a day, and it was in this aptitude that she became a legend in her own time, Stage Coach Mary!   ========================

Oklahoma Cook Gang -  http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-cookgang.html ==================

  “A True Girl of the West,” 1906 ==============

  Prospector Edward Schieffelin, founder of Tombstone, Arizona, c1880     ===========================

John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist of the American Old West who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As a young man, Holliday earned a D.D.S. degree and set up a dental practice in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1873 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, the same disease that had claimed his mother when he was 15. He moved to the American Southwest in hopes that the climate would prolong his life. Taking up gambling as a profession, he subsequently acquired a reputation as a deadly gunman. During his travels, he met and became good friends with Wyatt Earp and his brothers. In 1880, he moved to Tombstone, Arizona, and participated alongside the Earps in the famous gunfight. This did not settle matters between the two sides, and Holliday was embroiled in ensuing shootouts and killings. He successfully fought being extradited for murd...

Captain Jack Crawford, known as "The Poet Scout". Civil War veteran, Old West Scout, and Popular Poet of Western Lore. Crawford was Scout for Gen. Phil Sheridan, Gen. George Crook and good friend to Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody, who featured Crawford in his Wild West Show for many years.   ////////////////////////////////////////////////    

Frank Eaton, "Pistol Pete" In the late 1860's, 8 yr old Eaton witnessed six men kill his father. In 1875, when he was 15, he learned the whereabouts of his father's killers. But before setting off on his mission to avenge his father's death, he decided to visit Ft. Gibson, OK a cavalry fort, to learn more about handling a gun. He learned, and out shot everyone at the fort, earning him the nickname. Later in life, he moved to OK. Terr. and became a US Marshal   /////////////////////////////////////////    

  Wild Bill Hickok -   Cover of Illustrated Classics #121 ===================    

  Quanah Parker - Comanche Indian Chief   ==================

  Cowgirls of The American West ======================

Profile: Wyatt Earp Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was a city policeman ("assistant city marshal") in Wichita, Kansas and Dodge City, Kansas. He also served as a deputy sheriff and deputy U.S. marshal in Tombstone, Arizona. He was also at different times a farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, bouncer, saloon-keeper, gambler, miner, and on one occasion a boxing referee. He was never a cowboy or drover. He is best known for his part in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral during which three outlaw Cowboys were killed. The 30-second gunfight defined the rest of his life. Earp's modern-day reputation is that of the Old West's "toughest and deadliest gunman of his day." Earp spent his early life in Iowa. His first wife Urilla Sutherland Earp died while pregnant less than a year after they married. Within the next two years he was arrested, sued twice, escaped from jail, then was arrested three more times for "keeping and being found in ...