The frontier wasn’t just wide open—it was wide-eyed and lawless. This week, we’re trading our forensic kits for spurs as we head back to the era of the Wild West. Before there were fingerprints and DNA, there were just grainy "Wanted" posters and a whole lot of audacity.<br /><br />Research links below!<br /><br />History - <a href="https://www.history.com/articles/elmer-mccurdy-mummy-dead-outlaw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"The Dead Outlaw Whose Mummy Became a Traveling Show Prop"</a><br />Library of Congress Blogs - <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2018/07/elmer-mccurdy-traveling-corpse/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Elmer McCurdy: Traveling Corpse"</a><br />Broadway - <a href="https://www.broadway.com/buzz/205534/the-wild-weird-true-story-of-elmer-mccurdy-broadways-dead-outlaw/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"The Wild, Weird True Story of Elmer McCurdy, Broadway's Dead Otulaw"</a><br />NPR: Snap Judgement - <a href="https://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376097471/the-long-strange-60-year-trip-of-elmer-mccurdy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"The Long, Strange, 60-Year Trip of Elmer McCurdy"</a><br />Travel OK - <a href="https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.22040" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Elmer McCurdy Grave Site"</a><br /><br /> Utah - <a href="https://historytogo.utah.gov/etta-place/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Just Who Was the Outlaw Queen Etta Place?"</a><br />Find a Grave - <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152908564/etta-place" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Etta Place"</a><br />True West Magazine - <a href="https://www.truewestmagazine.com/article/what-happened-to-etta-place/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"What happened to Etta Place?"</a><br />Historynet - <a href="https://historynet.com/etta-place-sundance-kid/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"She was romantically linked to the 'Sundance Kid' - but much about her remains a mystery"</a><br />Legends of America - <a href="https://www.legendsofamerica.com/etta-place/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Etta Place - Hanging With the Sundance Kid"</a>