Saloons were social centers of the early mining camps :: Photographs - Western History
Patrons gather around the bar inside of a saloon in the mining town of Turret, Chaffee County, Colorado. "Whiskered man (left end of bar) old man H. M. Zook. C. W. Franzce is man holding beer glass which appears directly over cap of card player whose hand is exposed." Date [between 1900 and 1910?]
Commodore Perry Owens, Sheriff of Navajo County, Arizona Territory and winner of the second most famous gunfight in Arizona history. In Holbrook, Sept. 1887, as part of what is sometimes called the Graham-Tewksbury feud, within the space of seconds, Owens fired just 5 shots, killing Andy Cooper, Sam Blevins, Mose Roberts and wounding John Blevins.
When New York City Tamed the Feared Gunslinger Bat Masterson
In 1877, Bat Masterson lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He went on a five-week winning streak on the gambling tables, but he tired of the town and left when he ran into Wyatt Earp, who encouraged him to go to Dodge City, Kansas, where Bat’s brothers Jim and Ed were working in law enforcement. http://www.cheyenne.org
"Old West Cowboy" photos with supporting text, part 3
These 1885-1895 armed Arizona cowboys have a total of six pistols, three of which are 7.5 inch barreled Colt Single Action Army "Peacemakers". The man to the right of the image has an ivory-gripped Colt in a "Cheyenne" style tooled double-loop holster. The center man has a double holster rig, and one of his smaller pistols is a "Bulldog."