On October 6, 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno staged
the first train robbery in American history, making off with
$13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson
County, Indiana.

Of course, trains had been robbed before the Reno brothers’
holdup. But these previous crimes had all been burglaries of
stationary trains sitting in depots or freight yards.

Colt 45 the favorite gun of the train robbers.

Have Gun – Will Travel is a Western television series that was
produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television
and radio from 1957 through 1963. The television version of
the series starring Richard Boone was rated number three
or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first
four seasons.

Richard Allen Boone
(June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981)

John Dehner (November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992)

The sound effects department.

On October 26, 1881, the Earp brothers faced off against the
Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the O.K.
Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly
grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest.

Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank
security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town
marshal, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though
they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless.

The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys who lived on a ranch
outside of town and sidelined as cattle rustlers, thieves and
murderers.

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
(March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929)

On October 24, 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a team of bank
robbers in the Old West, opened in theaters around the United
States.

The film was a commercial and critical success, receiving seven
Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director)
and winning in the categories of Best Screenplay (William
Goldman), Best Song (Burt Bacharach’s “Raindrops Keep
Falling on My Head”), Best Score and Best Cinematography.

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show opened in London on May 9, 1887
giving Queen Victoria and her subjects their first look at a
romanticized version of the American West.

A well-known scout for the army and a buffalo hunter for the
railroads (which earned him his nickname), Cody had gained
national prominence 15 years earlier thanks to a fanciful novel
written by Edward Zane Carroll Judson. Writing under the pen
name Ned Buntline, Judson made Cody the hero of his highly sensationalized dime novel The Scouts of the Plains; or, Red
Deviltry As It Is. In 1872, Judson also convinced Cody to travel
to Chicago to star in a stage version of the book. Cody broke
with Judson after a year, but he enjoyed the life of a performer
and stayed on the stage for 11 seasons.

William Frederick Cody “Buffalo Bill” 
(February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917)

Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.
(March 20, 1821 – July 16, 1886)