The True Story of the Hanging Judge Who Never Hanged Anyone A Saloon on the Edge of the Map Picture the place first, because the place explains the man. Three hundred miles of the Chihuahuan Desert lie between San Antonio and El Paso, and somewhere out in the middle of that emptiness, the Pecos River…
Category: Old West Tales
Brazen Bill Brazelton: The Masked Highwayman of the Southwest
The sun beat down mercilessly on the Arizona Territory in the summer of 1878, casting long shadows across the dusty trails that connected the scattered settlements of the Southwest. For travelers along these routes, the journey was arduous enough without the added fear of the territory’s most notorious stage robber—a man known to all as…
