March 3, 1848 – Robert Findley “Frank” McLaury was born in Merideth, New York. He and his brother Tom would eventually lose their lives in the most famous gunfight in the history of the Old West – the O.K. Corral shootout. March 15, 1881 – Kinnear and Company’s stagecoach that carried $26,000 in Wells Fargo […]
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An actor portrays Wyatt Earp at a living history exhibition in Barstow. When the Earp boys, Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan, cloaked in long black coats and accompanied by gambler “Doc” Holiday, made the famous walk to meet Ike Clanton and his gang in Tombstone, Ariz., Wyatt walked into an exalted place in the history of
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The Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein Series “Hey, Is That Teddy Roosevelt? A look into Goldfield, NV history Durin’ the mining boom of the early 20th century, Nevada was a crazy place! Towns poppin’ up everywhere. Fortunes won and lost almost overnight. And some of the craziest money-makin’ schemes bein’ hatched to take advantage of all
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