The frontier wasn’t just wide open—it was wide-eyed and lawless. This week, we’re trading our forensic kits for spurs as we head back to the era of the Wild West. Before there were fingerprints and DNA, there were just grainy “Wanted” posters and a whole lot of audacity.
Research links below!
History – “The Dead Outlaw Whose Mummy Became a Traveling Show Prop”
Library of Congress Blogs – “Elmer McCurdy: Traveling Corpse”
Broadway – “The Wild, Weird True Story of Elmer McCurdy, Broadway’s Dead Otulaw“
NPR: Snap Judgement – “The Long, Strange, 60-Year Trip of Elmer McCurdy”
Travel OK – “Elmer McCurdy Grave Site”
Utah – “Just Who Was the Outlaw Queen Etta Place?”
Find a Grave – “Etta Place”
True West Magazine – “What happened to Etta Place?”
Historynet – “She was romantically linked to the ‘Sundance Kid’ – but much about her remains a mystery”
Legends of America – “Etta Place – Hanging With the Sundance Kid”