WICKED ALBUQUERQUE
Dark Tales from the Duke City’s Lawless Past
**Where Morality Went to Die and Legends Were Born**
STEP INTO HELL’S HALF ACRE Before Albuquerque became the modern city you know today, it was a place where lawlessness rivaled Dodge City and Tombstone. This wasn’t just another frontier town – this was where the West was truly wild.
**THE STORIES THEY DON’T TEACH IN SCHOOL:**
- Lizzy McGrath – The ruthless brothel owner who had an entire church demolished just to build her new bordello on the prime real estate
- Milt Yarberry – Albuquerque’s very first town marshal who ended up swinging from the gallows for murder
- Elfego Baca – The legendary lawman who survived a 36-hour gunfight without a scratch and had the audacity to face down Pancho Villa himself
- Hell’s Half Acre – The notorious red-light district that made even hardened cowboys think twice —
## YOUR GUIDE TO THE DARK SIDE **CODY POLSTON** – Author of “Wicked Albuquerque” – will personally lead you through the shadows of history. Polston spent years digging through archives, court records, and forgotten newspapers to uncover the stories of those who slipped through the cracks of morality. Now, the man who brought these buried secrets back to light will take you to the very locations where history’s most notorious characters lived, loved, fought, and died. *”The only way to truly understand a place is to know its darkest secrets.”*
THE WICKED ALBUQUERQUE EXPERIENCE **OPEN-AIR TROLLEY TOUR** – Feel the desert wind as you roll through the actual streets where outlaws, madams, and marshals wrote history in blood and bullets
**AUTHOR-LED EXPERIENCE** – Get the stories straight from the researcher who uncovered them
**REAL LOCATIONS** – Visit the actual sites where these dark deeds took place. 2 HOURS OF UNVARNISHED HISTORY. No sanitized stories here – just the raw, brutal truth — **Content Warning:** This tour contains mature historical content including violence, vice, and adult themes.
RESERVE YOUR SPOT IN HISTORY **Limited tours available – Book now before these seats are gone.
WARNING: SOME STORIES ARE TOO WICKED TO FORGET This isn’t a family-friendly ghost tour or a quaint historical walk. This is a deep dive into the brutal, unforgiving world of frontier Albuquerque, where survival meant playing by different rules – or no rules at all. If you want the real story – the blood, the bullets, the brothels, and the badges – then climb aboard. But leave your preconceptions at the trolley step.
**The Duke City’s darkest secrets are waiting.** — *Based on the acclaimed book “Wicked Albuquerque” by Cody Polston.
- Historical Content Contains Violence & Adult Themes
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