In terms of speed it was the fastest of the geared steam locomotives.

After securing federal funding, construction on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939.

Billy The Kid was born in the slums of New York City in 1859.

According to legend, he killed 21 men, but he is generally accepted to have killed between four and nine.

The actual Gun Fight only lasted about 30 seconds and is generally regarded as the most famous of the Old West.

Around 1928, Wyatt Earp told Stuart Lake, who was preparing a book on Wyatt's life, that he was the man that arrested Ben Thomspon in Ellsworth during August 1873.

After the famous gunfight at the OK Corral Wyatt headed to Colorado with Doc Holliday.

In 1881 Wyatt Earp invested in the Oriental Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona and sent for his family and friends to come and help him out.

On July 4, 1877 he got involved in an altercation with another gambler named Henry Kahn, whom Holliday beat with his walking stick repeatedly.

Doc Holliday was accounted to be as fast with the gun as Wild Bill Hickok.

Doc graduated from Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 1, 1872.

Wild Bill Hickok originally came to the West as a stagecoach driver.

In February 1873, it was widely reported that Wild Bill had been shot dead by Texans at Fort Dodge in Kansas. Worse, it was suggested that, like all men of his kind, he had died with his boots on. Wild Bill broke his silence of some years and wrote angrily to several newspapers, declaring, "No Texan has, nor ever will corral William."

James Butler Hickok's reputation as the Old West's premier gun fighter made him a legend in his own lifetime–a distinction shared by few of his gun fighting contemporaries.

Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer described Wild Bill as "a strange character, just the one which a novelist might gloat over, a Plainsman in every sense of the word, whose skill in the use of the rifle and pistol was unerring."