John David Albert – Frontiersman
Clay Allison – New Mexico Bad Boy
Clay Allison – Colfax County Bad Boy
Manuel Alvarez – Mountain Man To Politician
Ancient & Modern Pueblos – Oldest Cities in the U.S.
David L. Anderson, aka Billy Wilson – Outlaw & Lawman
Captain Juan Bautista de Anza II – Spanish Explorer
Apache – The Fiercest Warriors in the Southwest
Geronimo – The Last Apache Holdout
The Apache Kid – Outlaw Legend of the Southwest
Charles Askins – Gunfighter Legend
Francois Xavier Aubry – Skimmer of the Plains
Elfego Baca & The “Frisco War”
Doña Gertrudis Barceló – Gambling Queen of Santa Fe
Adolph Barrier – San Miguel County, New Mexico Deputy
Alexander K. Branch – Frontiersman
Billy The Kid – Teenage Outlaw of New Mexico
Billy the Kid – Fatal Shot in the Dark by Pat Garrett
Charlie” Bowdre – Unlucky Friend To Billy the Kid
Henry Newton Brown – Outlaw Marshal of Kansas
Kit Carson – Legend of the Southwest
John Chisum – Cattle Baron on the Pecos
Chunk Colbert – New Mexico Bad Boy
Mangus Coloradas – Mimbreno Apache War Chief
Comancheros of the Llano Estacado
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado – Spanish Conquistador
Davy Crockett – Gunfighter & Outlaw
The Notorious Dodge City Gang of Las Vegas
John Doherty (Death of a Sheriff – Murder and Conspiracy in the Old West)
James Joshua Dolan – Bad Hombre of the Lincoln County War
Joseph Doyle – Colorado Trader and Politician
The Comanche Indians – Horsemen of the Plains
Comancheros of the Llano Estacado
Pony Deal – Outlaw & Gunfighter of the Southwest
James Dolan – Bad Boy of the Lincoln County War
Andres Dorantes de Carranza – Spanish Explorer
Bill Earhart – Feuding in the Southwest
Pat Garrett – An Unlucky Lawman
John H. Good – Gunfighting Rancher
Tom Horn – Wyoming Killer for Hire
Benjamin Horrell – Texas Gunfighter
Mathew Kinkead – Colorado Trader to Wealthy Californian
Fred Lambert – Lawman, Poet, and Painter of Cimarron
John M. Larn – Vigilante, Outlaw, Lawman
Joaquin Antoine Leroux – Noted Mountain Man
Lincoln County, New Mexico Regulators
Black Jack Ketchum – Train Robber
Fred Lambert – Lawman & Artist of Cimarron, New Mexico
Ben Lilly: Bears, Blades & Contradictions
Frank MacNab – Killed in the Lincoln County War
James “Jim” Masterson – Dodge City Marshal
Mysterious Dave Mather – Lawman or Outlaw?
Lucien B. Maxwell & the Largest Land Grant in US History
Lucien Maxwell by a Santa Fe Trail Driver
Susan Magoffin – Recording the Santa Fe Trail
George McJunkin – Black Cowboy & Amateur Archaeologist
“Colonel” Thomas Means – A Really Mean Man
John Middleton – One of the Regulators
Jeff Davis Milton – Long-Term Lawman
Burton C. Mossman – Captain of the Arizona Rangers
Lawrence Murphy – Scoundrel Behind the Lincoln County War
The Navajo Nation – Largest in the U.S.
Fray Marcos de Niza – Franciscan Priest
Robert Ollinger – Killer With a Badge
Juan de Onate y Salazar – Spanish Conquistador
Commodore Perry Owens – Gunfighting Lawman
John William Poe – Hunting Billy the Kid
Josiah Gordon “Doc” Scurlock- Cowboy Gunfighter
John Selman – Wicked Lawman and Vicious Outlaw
Silva’s White Caps – A Vicious Outlaw Gang
Vicente Silva – Leading Silva’s White Caps Gang
George S. Simpson – Colorado Trader
Charles Siringo – Cowboy Detective
Six Shooter Bill Smith – Little Known Desperado
Ceran St. Vrain – Successful Trader & Businessman
The Tiwa Tribe – Fighting the Spanish
Tom Tate Tobin – Exploring & Scouting in New Mexico & Colorado
“Dangerous Dan” Tucker – Lawman of New Mexico
Chief Victorio – Fighting for Ancestral Lands
Fred Waite – Chickasaw Outlaw Turned Politician
Broncho Bill Walters Loses Against Wells Fargo
John Joshua “J.J.” Webb – Lawman Turned Outlaw
Harvey Whitehill – New Mexico Miner & Sheriff
The Zuni – Still a Mysterious Tribe
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.
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