Episodes

A few minutes after eight on February 8, 1887, Luke Short stepped outside Fort Worth’s White Elephant Saloon. Waiting for him was Jim “Longhair” Courtright, a former city marshal with a dangerous reputation. They talked. A hand moved toward a pistol. Then five shots rang out on Main Street. One man was still standing. This week on Way Out West, meet the quietly dressed gambler and the formidable former lawman whose confrontation became Fort Worth’s most famous gunfight. There’s money, wounded...