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This Navajo fighter decorated his 1873 Winchester rifle with his personal symbols in tacks. He also packed a military-issue, four-screw-frame, 1860 Colt Army .44, cut for a shoulder stock attachment and still in percussion ignition. Both Indians and whites carried weapons that used modern metallic cased ammunition along with their older percussion arms. 
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Rob Marsalis them ain't no bows and arrows
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Derrick Evans I bet he was tired of all the Christian refugees coming into his country.
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Cowboy Grub
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After spring roundups, cowboys herded their cattle out on the trail, heading to a cowtown with a railroad station where the cattle could be corralled and loaded for market.
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George del Castillo An authentic chuckwagon at the Painted Rock Ranch owned by Brantley Baird.
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Vernon Mcintosh We have been fortunate enough to eat at the Oklahoma state chuckwagon cook offs in Woodward, Oklahoma at our annual rodeo. The food is always good, and cooked by authentic cow hands. They use Dutch ovens and open fire to cook. It is indeed some fine food.
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Doc and Wyatt Split
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So what caused Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to split up—as friends and Vendetta Ride colleagues—in 1882?
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Michael Mallon Remember, there was active warrants out for these guys when they left Arizona. Doc wanted to stay in Colorado and Wyatt......well, Wyatt was doing Josie and got him self back to California to join her. They came after Doc but he was spared by the Gov. of Colorado who would not recognize the Warrant. Doc did get worse in Colorado and Wyatt had other fish to fry elsewhere with Josie
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Larry Brueshaber When speaking of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday, I don't know what Doc's philosophy was or what Wyatt's philosophy. To me it isn't about who they were but what they had done. I don't know if they were crooks or not; the only thing I know about them is through them and other great men of the west, they helped to tame an area that very inhospitable and a place where a person could have died a thousand different ways.
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Three-Legged Willie Williamson
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They called him Three-legged Willie but before anyone starts drawin’ conclusions; Robert Williamson was famous Texas veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, patriot and statesman.
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Scott Justesen Yaaaa hoooo! We need more three legged Willies on the benches today.
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Dallas Hays I'm assuming Williamson County north of Austin is named for him, Georgetown TX...Wilco
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Posed as if waiting in ambush, this Apache scout in early Tucson, Arizona Territory, holds a government-issued, .50-70 caliber 2nd Model Allin conversion musket, near his Smith & Wesson .44 American revolver and a skinning knife. 
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Bob Reid Presumably he was scouting for the U.S. Army
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Janice Lee Weiss Truitt A light eyed apache??
Maybe adopted white guy
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The Legend of Kissing Jenny
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Marshall Trimble told me this story, so it just might be true: In 1889 a Yavapai County legislator had a habit of heading over to Prescott’s Whiskey Row each day after the legislature convened. 
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Scott Justesen Waaaaaaahahahahahahahaah Another True West Magazine CLASSIC! You cannot make these old time tales up 🏻🏻🏻🏻
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Cory Wilson I'm with Liz Mifflin Vakey on this
...don't let a good story get in the way of the potential truth. I'd love for this to be true....can't place the location, but I think I've heard this legend before. It might have been Cripple Creek. Kissing Jenny becomes Red Lantern Lydia very easily.
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Ely S. Parker, the only American Indian to reach the rank of general in the Union army during the Civil War, attempted to assimilate into New York business life after his tenure as BIA commissioner ended in controversy in 1871.
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Janice Lee Weiss Truitt No one ever mentions my cousin peter pitchlynn
A great man also
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Dave Todd General Stand Watie of the Confederate Army was a full blooded Indian too
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Who Cleaned Up Cochise County?
Who Cleaned Up Cochise County? – True West Magazine
If you believe popular history and the movies, Wyatt Earp cleaned up outlaw-infested Cochise County at the O.K. Corral in 1881.
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Kerry Pinte My favorite book on Cochise county is Tombstones Yesterday by Lorenzo Walters published 1928. he was a law man himself back in the day. Most all movies about tombstone or the OK Corral give credit to this book.
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Tommy Hoffert I remember a show when I was a kid called the Sheriff of Cochise County, John Bromfield played the Sheriff, it was actually on before I was born but in the afternoon they played reruns. He drove around in a old station wagon with a rifle stowed in the drivers door.
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