Robert Leroy Parker was born in Utah in 1866. He and his brothers originally operated as a gang in Colorado. Butch's first run-in with the law was for horse theft near Telluride.

He worked for awhile as a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming, gaining the name of "Butch" at that time.

Butch and his brothers held up the Denver & Rio Grande express near Grand Junction in 1887. In 1889 they robbed the 1st National Bank of Denver. Along with Tom McCarty & Matt Warner, in 1889, they robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride of over $20,000.

A Posse was formed after the Telluride bank holdup, and Butch's gang barely escaped capture by having fresh horses stashed between the towns of Rico and Dolores.

He later became leader of the infamous "Wild Bunch" along with his friend the Sundance Kid. It is said, through the years of their travels to other states and South America, that they vacationed in Denver on a number of occasions.

Butch and Sundance were said to have been killed in Bolivia in 1909 during a holdup, although other reports say that they escaped and lived peaceful lives for many years, away from the long arms of the law.

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Illinois in 1848. He traveled extensively throughout the West, serving as a peace officer in many frontier towns.

Wyatt also worked as a buffalo hunter, saloon keeper, and as a professional gambler. He was said to have a "punch like a mule". Virgil and James Earp referred to him as the "Earp Ape".

In 1880 he moved to Tombstone, Arizona to serve as a deputy U.S. Marshal. The famous shootout at the O.K. Corral with the Clantons and McLarys in 1881 would bring notoriety to Wyatt and his brothers.

Wyatt and Doc Holliday moved to Colorado in 1881 to avoid a warrant for their arrest in Arizona. He spent some time in Trinidad where Bat Masterson was running a gambling saloon. Wyatt later moved to Gunnison and dealt faro games at a local gambling hall for a couple of years.

For the next several years he and his brother Warren roamed the gold camps of Colorado working in various gaming establishments.

Wyatt died in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 1929.

The dentist turned gambler, John Henry Holliday, was born in Georgia in 1852.

Shortly after finishing medical school in the early 1870's he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and advised to move West. Doc set up practice in Dallas, Texas but spent more time as a gambler than dentist.

Trouble seemed to follow Doc wherever he went. Possessing a short temper, he would be involved in more than 8 shootings and several stabbings in his career. Of slight built and never in good health, Doc always had his equalizer with him in the form of a pistol or a sharp knife.

After the O.K. Corral shootout he fled to Pueblo and on to Denver in 1881 where he was employed as a faro dealer at the Babbitt's House.

When not working he could be found in one of the many other gambling halls along Blake and Larimer streets...or roaming the various mining camps of Central City, Idaho Springs, Georgetown, and Boulder.

He moved to Leadville, known as "Cloud City", in 1883 and took up semi-permanent residence there as his health continued to deteriorate from heavy drinking and the effects of tuberculosis. Doc began to deal faro at the Monach Saloon but a bought of pneumonia soon added to his troubles.

From 1885 to 1887 he spent time in Pueblo and Leadville, and was arrested for vagrancy in Denver in 1886.

In 1887 Doc bought a one-way ticket to Glenwood Springs, Colorado where the famous mineral baths were said to work wonders. But it was too late for Doc. At 10 am on the morning of November 8, 1887 he drank a glass of whiskey and laid back on his bed, saying "This is funny". A few minutes later he was dead. It's thought that his dying words referred to the fact that it wasn't a bullet that got him.

William Barclay Masterson was born in Illinois in 1855.

Despite stories about his reputation as a killer, Bat's time in Colorado was reasonably quite.

He moved to Denver in 1890 and was employed as manager of a burlesque troupe at the Palace Theater, as well as a house gambler. In 1891 Bat married Emma Walters, one of the dancers in the show.

Shortly after the wedding they moved to Creede where he managed a saloon and gambling parlor. His reputation as a peacekeeper preceded him as it took little more that a cry, "Here comes Masterson!" to calm any disorderly customer.

Both Bat and Soapy Smith on occasion wore the badge of town marshal in Creede, one of the wildest mining camps of it's time in Colorado.

When the boom in Creede began to wain Bat returned to Denver and got into prize fighting promotion. By the late 1890's he had pretty much given up the life of a gunslinger and moved into more peaceful pursuits.

Bat later took a job as a sports editor for the New York Morning Telegraph and died on the job on October 25, 1921.