On the American frontier, the line between lawman and criminal could be thin. And perhaps no character of the wild west demonstrated that more than John Joshua Webb. If you don’t know his name, you’ll probably recognize the names of many of his friends, like Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, Dirty Dave Rudabaugh, and Wyatt Earp.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.