ArizonaRealCountry.com 37 February 2019 Arizona’sUltimate,Year-RoundFamilyFunDestination.Arizona’sLargestCollectionofExoticAnimals. NorthernAve.andthe303Freeway•623-935-WILD(9453)•WildlifeWorld.com 20newspecies,including3newRhinos! Don’tMiss OurNew BabyGiraffe, Austin! Don’tMiss OurNew BabySeaLion, Sunny! Zoo,aquariumandsafaripark with6,000animals, 8showsdaily, tonsofrides, athousandthrills andamillionsmiles. AllinOneDay! Enjoythenew 8acreadditiontoour Off Admission Per Person/$20 Value Not valid with any other discounts $ 5 When Bat Masterson left law enforcement he went east to be sports editor for the New York Morning Telegraph newspaper. Before he became a lawman in Arizona, Wyatt Earp was arrested on May 8th, 1871 in Van Buren, Arkansas for stealing a horse. He jumped bail and went to Kansas where he hunted buffalo and married a local prostitute. That wasn’t his only run-in with the law either. He was also jailed for theft in 1883 and again in 1885. Contrary to Hollywood, Wyatt Earp was no choirboy. In 1884 Cheyenne, Wyoming had a population of about 7,000 and was known as the richest city in the world due to its large population of millionaire cattlemen. Famous stagecoach robber, Charles E. Boles (better known as Black Bart) wore socks over his boots so he couldn’t be tracked. He was always smartly dressed and acted in a very gentlemanly manner while robbing stagecoach passengers at gunpoint. He was arrested in 1883. It seems he had accidentally dropped a handkerchief with an identifiable laundry mark on it at the site of one of his holdups. In the mid-1800s, during the huge migration west, more people died of cholera than were killed by hostile Native Americans. Dysentery was a close second. Measles, scarlet fever, and other diseases were common and often fatal. There were seldom doctors and usually no medicine of any kind on a wagon train. On the Oregon Trail, a common entry in most of the diaries of those who kept them during the 6 to 8-month long trip west, was a daily count of the graves they passed. It was also common for the Native Americans to dig up the graves to take the clothing unaware they were spreading cholera and other diseases among themselves. Contrary to much of what Hollywood portrays, moving west from Missouri to Oregon or California was no “walk in the park”... for anyone. In none of the old catalogs and books that specialized in supplies for bartenders were there any drinking glasses referred to as “shot glasses.” They did show one called a “whiskey glass” that held one and a half to two and a half ounces and did look somewhat similar to a modern shot glass. The actual term “shot glass” didn’t show up till the early 1930s. Hollywood got it wrong again. By Lee Anderson, Old West Living Historian, Award Winning Author, and Old School Horseman Lee Anderson and his horse, Concho, are well known around the state doing presentations in schools, corporate events, and civic events. Learn more about them and his book on his website. historicaloldwest.org DID YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD WEST... Scholastic News