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Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Fri, Jul 09, 2010

Al Jennings of Oklahoma, largely through masterful self-promotion, became for a time the best-known of the outlaws of the American West. He was a genuine bandit, he did go to a Federal penitentiary for attempted murder on a life sentence which was commuted to five years in 1900. He was pardoned by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.

Garrett Murder

Garrett Murder

Fri, Jul 09, 2010

Nearly everybody knows that Sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, shot and killed a 21-year-old bandit named Henry McCarty, who usually went by Billy the Kid, in Pete Maxwell's bedroom at Fort Sumner in July, 1881. What most people don't know is that Pat Garrett was himself murdered in Do�a Ana County, New Mexico 27 years later. The murder of Pat Garrett is one of the many unsolved mysteries of the West.

TEXAS FEVER The Winchester Quarantine

TEXAS FEVER The Winchester Quarantine

Fri, Jul 16, 2010

Texas fever and a Texas war.

The Rangers Creek of Gold in the Hill Country

The Rangers Creek of Gold in the Hill Country

Sun, Jul 18, 2010

THE RANGERS CREEK OF GOLD, STILL NOT FOUND!