News Reports Brings Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce Enduring Fame! Jan. 15, 1881 edition of “The Citizen” of Tucson Arizona headline: ANOTHER MURDER Called P. Rourke there. He shot popular mining Engineer P. Schneider in a Charleston saloon. The official version was given & then the version by a reporter interview of “Rourke.” As seems a common error in newspapers […]
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Intro Maria Izabella Magdolna Horony was her given name at birth on Nov. 7, 1850 in Hungary. Her family immigrated to the U.S. when she was almost 10. Living in Davenport Iowa, she was called Mary Katherine Horony. When she was 15, both her parents died within one month of each other. She then lived
Virgil Earp, second child of Nicholas and Virginia Ann (Cooksey) Earp. Born July 18, 1843 in Hartford Kentucky, called Virgil Walter Earp. The family moved to Monmouth, Illinois. Then to Pella Iowa in 1850, when Virgil was 7 years old. That’s where he spent his childhood, on the family farm. What’s Your Virgil Earp Question?
Allen English was a Tombstone AZ attorney. He was well known in the city of Tombstone, but even throughout all of Arizona. Why are people interested in this historic character? There is an Allen English house in historic Tombstone Arizona. That is one reason some may peak their interest. Is that you? Or was it
Warren Earp was the youngest brother of the much more famous Wyatt Earp. Warren was born on March 9, 1855 to his parents Nicholas Porter and Virginia Ann (maiden name: Cooksey). The family resided in Pella, Iowa at the time. They were farming there. The family bible notes his first name as Baxter. He goes through
Sherman McMaster’s origins were not in Tombstone Arizona. Before Tombstone, in Galena Illinois, Sherman McMasters was born in 1853. Raised in Rock Island, Illinois. His father was a business owner. Sherman didn’t want for anything in his youth. He had a good education1 through high school.3 Was it then he learned to speak fluent Spanish?1 When he was
Camillus Fly was possibly the most important person in showing us the visual history of the Wild West! He photographed many scenes of Old West events and life in the 1800s. With photography in its infancy, and the circumstances he encountered in his field work – that took a great deal of effort. He moved
Doc Holliday was born John Henry Holliday in Griffin, Georgia on August 14, 1851. It’s a little South of Atlanta. His ancestral roots were Scottish and English. His mother was born Alice Jane McKey. His father was Henry Burroughs Holliday, who served in the military as a Major. First in the Mexican-American war, and then in
Morgan Earp didn’t create much of a stir, as did some of his other brothers. Was he overshadowed by them, as they created more headlines? Unfortunately his renowned newspaper fame came along at the end of his life. Are you curious right now? What about Morgan Earp? Do You Wonder: Who Shot Him? And So: How Did
I think we all know by now that Val Kilmer portrayed Doc Holliday in the 1993 movie Tombstone. The movie helped revamp his image as a cool, quick-witted gunslinger who stood up to the feared outlaw Johnny Ringo. Doc Holliday is now remembered as one of the most famous Wild West gunfighters, apart from Wyatt
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Billy Claiborne was born in Yazoo County, Mississippi on Oct. 21, 1860. In the central Western part of the state. Nothing much is known about his youth & upbringing. But there are some who say he was a teen with a “chip on his shoulder” type of attitude. He turned up in Arizona around 1879,
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Johnny Ringo was well known in Tombstone Arizona. His name still reverberates in town today. Who was this man of infamy in the old Wild West? What you might be wondering about right now … Was Johnny Ringo highly educated? What happened with Doc Holliday & Ringo? Who killed Ringo? Was it Doc? Ringo’s Grave:
