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Hometown Top 13
My Favorite Posts:
Santa Claus Robbery and Old Rip
The Deadly Dr. Holmes
Airship April, 1897
Buttermilk and Blood
Brimstone and Limelight
"Bring Them in Alive"
A Train Twice Robbed
Queen of the Clouds
Hogwire and Heroin
Sodom on the Trinity
The Last Rebel
Suitable for Framing
Cowtown's Highway to Hell
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Buttermilk and Blood (Part 1): “I’ll Kill the First Man Who Touches This Engine”
Just after noon on April 3, 1886 near the intersection of two sets of railroad tracks in the open countryside south of Fort Worth, two groups of men stood. They were facing north toward town. Watching. Perhaps for a plume … Continue reading