Butch Cassidy’s well-known “Fort Worth Five” photograph, which led to the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang’s eventual breakup, was recaptured for the History Channel’s “Outlaws” episode of its recently aired Wild West Tech series. Since I was brought into the project at the 11th hour, I had less than 72 hours to find reasonable look-alike characters and suitable circa 1900 clothes. Over the next two days, I worked in conjunction with Greystone Communications’ Associate Producer James
January/February 2004
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- New Mexico Piñon Coffee Company
- Narcissa Whitman
- Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
- From Wild Women to the Wild Plains
- A River Runs Through History
- When did American cowboys stop wearing Levi jeans?
- Did Cole Younger have any children? I ask because a doctor in town comes into my barbershop and claims to be his great-grandson.
- Breaking Out More Shovels
- Zip Zapped!
- Striking Similarities
- Chisholm Trail Heritage Center
- Jack Elam (1919-2003)
- Not Just Another Pretty Voice
- Those Singing Cowboys
- Deadwood Drama
- Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
- I’ve heard there was a passenger on the Titanic named William P. Longley, and that someone from the family of Wild Bill Longley identified the traveler as the outlaw. Evidently, Longley faked his death only to sink along with the Titanic. Is that true?
- How did Martha Jane Canary acquire the nickname “Calamity?”
- Did the old stagecoach route between Benson and Tucson follow what is today’s I-10?