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This is a list of Old West gunfights.Gunfights have left a lasting impression on American frontier history; many were retold and embellished by dime novels and magazines like Harper's Weekly during the late 19th and early 20th century.
The Gibraltar Trade Center started as an outdoor market, and auction house on Woodruff Road along the southern limits of Gibraltar, Michigan (hence the name) in the 1970's. It, later, relocated to a permanent location, inside of a former Joshua Doore warehouse on Eureka Road in Taylor in 1980, fully occupying the site by 1982.
The majority of outlaws in the Old West preyed on banks, trains, and stagecoaches. Some crimes were carried out by Mexicans and Native Americans against white citizens who were targets of opportunity along the U.S.–Mexico border, particularly in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
In the United States, a gun show is an event where promoters generally rent large public venues and then rent tables for display areas for dealers of guns and related items, and charge admission for buyers. [1] The majority of guns for sale at gun shows are modern sporting firearms. [1] Approximately 5,000 gun shows occur annually in the United ...
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Marion Artemus "Bob" Speer (1885–1978) established the Western Trails Museum in 1936. He was a lifetime collector of Native American and Old West artifacts, and author. He built a building next to his house in Huntington Beach, California, to house his collection and opened it to the pub
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Crossroads of the West Gun Shows is a travelling gun show, the largest in the United States. [1] Their regular attendance of 10,000 was predicted to exceed 17,000 following the 2015 San Bernardino attack. [2] As many as 1,400 vendors attend. [3] It holds 60 shows a year. [4] Total annual attendance exceeds 500,000. [5]