You’re Riding Shotgun With… Orin Friesen, whose passions are the Chisholm Trail, Texas Longhorn cattle, the Pony Express and Kansas history. A serious student of history for more than 50 years, Friesen is the operations manager of the Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Supper, plays bass for the Prairie Rose Rangers and is curator of the Silver Screen Cowboy Museum. He doesn’t just talk the talk when it comes to preserving Kansas’s Old West heritage; he walks th

April 2012
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Traveling Through History
- Wild Bunch Territory
- Tracking the Texas Rangers
- Gold Coast’s Badmen
- Doc Holliday Slept Here
- Custer & Cody Country
- Cathouse Melee
- Cowboys & Cowtowns
- April 2012 Events
- In the Nov/Dec. 2011 issue, I told readers a possible reason why Geronimo was holding two sticks was so he could steady the gun while firing. Reader David West has shared another explanation:
- Who was the man Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed in Abilene, Kansas?
- Why did some vaquero saddles have dinner plate-type saddle horns?
- How successful were traveling entertainers in the Old West?
- The John Wayne Memorabilia exhibit in Los Angeles featured his costume trousers with sewed-on belt loops. Aren’t belt loops an early 20th-century development?
- Did Arizona ever list train robbery as a capital offense?
- John Fusco
- 10 for 10: Bismarck, ND
- Supersized in San Antonio
- Unsinkable Margaret Brown
- Snake River Salmon
- Paramount’s Golden Boy
- Gary Ernest Smith
- Following Sibley’s Confederate Invasion
- Head Over Heels
- Viva Villa!
- Hardin’s Deadly Tools