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May 2006

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Mail-Order Brides

Jana Bommersbach
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Spicing Up Your Kitchen

Jane C. Bischoff
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The Old Military Post Road

Lila Lee Jones
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Tragic Powwow

Bob Boze Bell
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Collecting the West Roundup 2005

Meghan Saar
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Prices Ride Tall in the Saddle

Meghan Saar
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Live at the Parlor

Sandy Whiting
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The Wagon Master

Meghan Saar

Will you help me out? For over 40 years, I’ve been trying to figure out this Steve McQueen line from my favorite Western, The Magnificent Seven: “It took me a long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock.”

I’ve concluded that the James-Younger Gang got more than $52,000 in about 12 years. What do you suppose they did with it? I was also wondering why Frank James, who lived until 1915, didn’t share more about the gang’s doings

What is a needle gun?

In Bandolero!, Sheriff July Johnson has the same name/role as he does in Lonesome Dove. Do you know what the correlation is?

After the Northfield, Minnesota, bank robbery, a photo of Cole Younger shows his right eye swollen shut. What caused that injury?

What can you tell me about Jeff Milton, who supposedly said, “I never killed a man who didn’t need killing?”

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Call Me Lonesome

Chris Wienk
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Crashyertown

Mark Boardman
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The Hanging Judge’s Town

Johnny D. Boggs
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The Wild West

Sandy Whiting
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Hacienda Brothers

Mark Boardman
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Playing for Change

Sandy Whiting
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One Dime at a Time

Chris Wienk

A few years ago, a TV Western aired with a character named Bill Longley. He was dressed in a white shirt, black pants and a black hat, and rode a black and white horse. Was there a real Bill Longley?