Casa de Bandini was once the grand home of an elite Mexican family in the days when San Diego was a pueblo and California was a foreign land. Thanks to many dedicated workers, including Victor A. Walsh, a trained mason with the alias Dr. Dirt, this two-story building has a new life in Old Town. “Some people think this is just a building, but no, it’s a living
April 2011
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- May 2011 Events
- How prevalent was “pot” in the West?
- How did 19th-century government land grants to the railroads work?
- Why did Gene Autry carry a two-gun rig minus one holster?
- When did the practice of branding livestock begin in the U.S.?
- What’s the difference between a marshal and a sheriff?
- Did early Westerns actually film at night or just close down the lens?
- The Blevins Boys are in the House
- Wild Horses Run to the Top
- Wild Horses Run to the Top
- Baits, Traps and Old West Rats
- Tempted by Baked Goods
- Traywick’s Tombstone
- A Cosmopolitan Rehab
- Now Playing: Hollywood Guns
- Riches for Chinese Miners
- Maui’s Ranching Icons
- Audrey Kalivoda
- Open Range: The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland
- Cowboy’s Lament: A Life on the Open Range
- Will Rogers: A Political Life
- Black Cowboys of the Old West
- The Brilliant Bandit of the Wabash
- They Call Me Doc: The Story Behind the Legend of Doc Holliday
- Mattie: Wyatt Earp’s Secret Second Wife
- For Your Reference Shelf
- 1956’s Seven Men From Now
- Roy Rogers’ Birthday Gifts
- Legends: John Ford
- Gunsmoke: The Fourth Season, Vol. 2
- Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Clint?
- True Fit
- Snapshots of Old West History
- The Last Great Buffalo Roundup
- Cleopatras on the American Nile
- The Real Rooster Cogburn
- The Truth Behind True Grit
- Kearney, Nebraska
- True Masterpiece
- The Civil War Turns 150
- How Long To Haul
- Ten tips for hauling
- April 2011 Events