Outlaw Johnny Ringo remains one of the most notorious figures of the American West, remembered for his time in Tombstone, ...

In the shadow of Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains, we find the grave of Johnny Ringo—a man tangled in the legends of Tombstone and the Old West. Was it suicide or something darker? Then we continue our ...

What turned Johnny Ringo to a life of crime remains uncertain; but in his short, blood-soaked life, he left a deep impact on the history of the West.

John Peters Ringo was born into a farming family in Grand Forks, Indiana, in 1850. Moving great distances was common in those days, and the family packed up and moved to Missouri in 1858.