August 2015

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Red Cloud Remembered

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A Bank Robbery Gone Wrong

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Workin’ on the Railroad

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Saving a Piece of True West

World’s Most Gorgeous Saddle

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The Top 10 Western Museums of 2015

The Scandalous Boomtown Temptress

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Dust-Covered Foot Soldiers

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Fighting to Cross an Unknown America

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Bronco: Final Season

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California Raisins

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Western Events for September 2015

Bob Boze Bell at Museum of the West in Scottsdale AZ

Museums We Love

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Rick Wallner

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What became of Hickok’s weapons?

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“The Severed Heads Campaign” (March 2015) was a most interesting story. Did some frontier bounty hunters also collect heads?

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What kind of rifle was Bull Harris using in 1966’s El Dorado?

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What’s the story behind the phrase “There’s gold in them thar hills?”

Rough Drafts 9/15

Rough Drafts 8/15

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What was life like for people living in “soddies?”

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Boomtown Goddesses

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Why Did Hollywood Take So Long to Discover Wyatt Earp?

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Western Conquest

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Arizona Sheriffs

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Tombstone vs. Los Angeles

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The Words of an Outlaw

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Hooked On Firewater

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A Frontier Without Borders

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Naming Arizona

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Wyatt Earp’s Arrested Development

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Eastwood in Hollywood

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Only One Shot to Make

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First Sketch Made in the West

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Going Behind the Scenes

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Struggles of the Stagecoach Driver

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The Last Outlaw Town

Going Behind the Scenes

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Small Boat, Grand Canyon

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Lawman George Scarborough Meets The Wild Bunch

oregon-trail-blog

New Adventures on the Old Oregon Trail

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Cowboys on Camels

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Wyatt Earp Returns Without a Horse

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The Fate of Pat Garrett’s Killer

Wagons Ho!

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An Award Winning Western Musical is Left on the Cutting–Room Floor

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The Land Act That Built Universities

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Dancing With the Doc

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Traveling Western Art Exhibit

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Kit Carson’s Cross Country Mule Ride

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A Quarter-Century Tribute

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Heavy Artillery Designed By A Dentist

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A Good Time to Swear

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The Gospel of Wealth

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Arizona’s Deadliest Address

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Historic Ranch House Open Twice a Year at Trinity Site

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Demise of the Wild Bunch

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The Denton Mare

Eureka Nevada Fourth of July parade 1913

A Mining Bonanza and Bust

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Phoenix Novelist Mines Muses of Art and Writing with Lost Dutchman Novel

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Edward Canby

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Johnny Mack Brown

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A Writer Who Made a Difference

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Historic Markers and Back Roads in Land of Enchantment

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Cayuse Chief Tiloukaikt

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Chalkley

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The Outlaw Trail – From Canada to Mexico

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She Wasn’t Always so Loved

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Mysterious Desert View Tower Still Inspires Roadside Visitors

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The Best of the Best

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The Folk Bandit

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Captain Silas Soule

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A Short Storm

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Jefferson’s Fourth Try

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Galen Clark

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Arkansas Tom

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Pack Your “War Bag”

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Emmett Dalton

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Justice for Jack

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A .41 Derringer Barks Again

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Liberty, Not Death

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Engineering Marvels of the Western Railroads

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Soldiers of the Cross

1862 Battle of Apache Pass by Joe Beeler

The Alleged Bascom Affair

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The Man Behind the Dodge City War

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The Urban Texas

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August 2015 Events

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Elizabeth Fenn

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Yellow Rock

Legends-and-Lies-by-Bill-O-Reilly

Trails to the Truth

Out Where the West Begins

Entrepreneurs or Robber Barons?

Scotch Barley Broth

Sitting Duck

Mystery-of-Chaco-Canyon-by-Doug-Hocking

Old West Adventure in the Land of Enchantment

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A Tombstone Soliloquy