PEOPLE A-C D-H I-R S-Z This interactive biographical dictionary provides concise profiles of the men and women featured in THE WEST, as well as information about many individuals who are mentioned only in passing. In most cases, the profiles offer additional details about the lives of these historical figures, together with some comment on their significance for historians. Click on a name below ...

THE WILD WILD WEST Renegades, Rebels, & Rogues, the words to a popular Country & Western song, is just exactly what the twin territories of Oklahoma and the Indian Nations were full of in the later part of the 19th century. Known as the Robbers Roost, the territories became a safe haven for some of the old west's most desperate villains. With no law west of St. Louis and no God west of Fort ...

Outlaws, Lawmen and Gunmen - Photos, bio's, wanted posters and books of the old west ...

Cherokee Bill This is as good a day to die as any. Cherokee Bill, March 17, 1896, as he stepped into the courtyard at Fort Smith and saw the gallows. Crawford Goldsby (a.k.a. Cherokee Bill) was born at Fort Concho, Texas, on Feb. 8, 1876. One of my source has Bill being of mixed blood, being part white , Hispanic, and black. Another source has reported to me that Bill was of African, European ...

Biography of one of the deadliest outlaw gunslingers of the old West.

More legends Isaac Hanging Judge Parker (1838-1896) Isaac Charles Parker was born in Ohio and in 1859 he graduated from lawschool. Later that year he moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, opened up his own business and met his wife to be. In 1868 Parker was appointed judge, a post he held onto until he was elected to the Congress two years later. Parker ended his political career in 1875, and before ...

Genealogy of the outlaw Oliver Yantis ...