A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ADVENTURE Wild West Balloon Festival Cody, WY, August 1-3: Balloonists take off and participate in competitions such as the “Hound and Hare” race and “Pole Grab.” 307-527-7424 • IrmaHotel.com Buffalo Bill Invitational Shoot-out Cody, WY, August 7-9: Shooters compete in skeet, wobble skeet, trap, wobble trap, five stand and sporting clays shooting contests. 307-587-4771 • CenterOfTheWest.org Prairie Sludge Trudge

August 2014
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- Lewis Kingman
- Single Shot of Southern Comfort
- Ghostly Soldiers March On
- The Blast at Steins Pass
- Robbers of the Rails
- Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
- On the Trail of Bigfoot
- Related to Outlaws
- Barker’s Riches
- Rough Drafts 8/14
- Let Freedom Ring!
- Love Song to the Plains and the Desert West
- Bull Doggin’
- Robert E. Lee’s Legacy East and West
- A Hero Reconsidered
- Kansas Tribe Reconsidered
- Marshal Chet Byrnes Rides Again!
- Deadly Feud Truths Revealed
- Edwin R. Sweeney’s Passion for the West Revealed
- A Sporting Gunfight
- Bitter Tears for Little Big Man
- Going Nuts Out West
- August 2014 Events
- Al Harper
- How frequent was mail service in the Old West?
- What is the Halderman case?
- How did American Indians view Gen. George Crook, who fought so many of them during the Indian Wars?
- Did John Wayne’s brother, Robert, appear in any of his movies?
- A constable testified that a man he killed on a railroad platform in Willcox, Arizona, in 1881 had been “skylarking.” What is that?
- The Oklahoma Kid