During the 1960s, when Philadelphia’s channel 48 ran Satan’s Satellites, I had no idea I was munching popcorn through a serial (Zombies of the Stratosphere) re-cut into a feature. I was jumping out of my pj’s because it was action-filled Sci-Fi, starring a jet-propelled hero, but I had never seen a chapter play. Featuring more fights and stunts than I had seen in a dozen programs, the story flew as fast as Rocket Man did, but something made it different. This Republic picture was mad

April 2014
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- Peter Iverson on Navajo History
- Nez Perce in Yellowstone
- Gunsmoke’s Gun for Hire
- Rough Drafts 4/14
- Davy Crockett’s “Ol’ Betsy” Found
- Battle of the Plaza
- A Saga of Bloody Kansas
- On the Trail of History
- CSI: Fort Union
- Profile in Leadership
- Texas Hill Country Trail: Cavalry, Cowboys and Germans
- Mules & Canyons, Oh My!
- On the Trail of Old Arizona
- Wyatt Earp’s Alaskan Adventure
- Buried Treasures
- April 2014 Events
- What happened to Tombstone Judge Wells Spicer?
- Rambles Through the Nebraska Panhandle
- Following North Dakota’s Sheyenne River
- Bozeman Trail
- Thomas Brent Smith
- Rediscovering the Mandan’s Heart of the World
- Race, Rodeo and the West
- Huber’s Café
- Saving Madam Jennie’s Place
- Living for the Dream in Your Heart
- Were Freemasons prevalent in the Old West?
- Thomas Eidson’s book, adapted as The Missing, features a torture scene where Apaches sew a man into an animal skin and put it over a fire. The animal skin shrinks and suffocates the man inside. Did Indians really do that?
- Who was the greatest of the bank and train robbers?
- Did Wyatt Earp ever drive or own a car?
- On the California Trail: Salt Lake City to Sacramento
- Timothy O’Sullivan
- JUSTIFIED: SEASON FOUR
- True Westerner of 2014
- The First Lincoln County War