From handball to football, from polo to golf, and from the Tombstone Tigers to the Wyoming State Penitentiary All-Stars, true Westerners have always had a love of sports. When we think of the American frontier period, we usually think of rodeo and horse racing, but as you’ll find out in this issue, the Old West was full of all kinds of sports. For example, how’s this for an odd  juxtaposition: football and Tombstone? Somehow we can’t quite picture Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp blitzing o


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