“Just don’t do anything stupid.” That’s either the safety lesson or motivational speech driver Bert Winchester has just given three other journalists and me before we pile into the back of a pickup and prepare to join an armada of trucks, SUVs, the South Dakota governor, 57 riders on horseback and thousands of spectators from across the world. Oh, and more than 1,000 bison. Make that buffalo. After all, this is the annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup in the scenic Black Hill

September 2011
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- What did Old West towns do with the carcasses of dead horses?
- Who was Urilla Sutherland, the first wife of Wyatt Earp?
- Why didn’t Winchester chamber any of its rifles in .45 Colt?
- What happened to Maj. Marcus Reno’s command during the Battle of Little Big Horn in June 1876?
- What is forty-rod whiskey?
- Did cowboys place their rifle scabbards in the front or back of the saddle?
- I’m intrigued by the story of Dora Hand, the Dodge City saloon singer. Do any photos of her exist?
- Hot Springs, South Dakota
- Mark Hall-Patton
- Confronting the Fiddle Player: Did Rex Rideout Make it Out of Cowboys & Aliens Alive?
- 1961’s The Comancheros
- The Legend of Hell’s Gate
- Tarantino’s “Southern” Western
- The Warrior’s Way
- Rango
- The “Heart” of Cowboys & Aliens
- National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Wrangler Winners
- Killed by Indians 1871
- Payback at Morning Peak
- The First Dance
- Olivia Wilde
- The Sierra Packers
- A Screaming Session at Cowboys & Aliens
- Conflict on the Range
- Galveston’s Guardian Angel
- Survivors of an Old West Shoot-Out
- Shot for Snoring?
- Eating Along the Oregon Trail
- TB Havens in the Old West
- Face-Off on Facebook
- Boot Scoot & Boogie
- Cowboys and Monsters
- Get Along, Little Buffalo!
- The Bandit Queen’s Treasures
- Top 10 Western Museums of 2011
- Billy the Kid Stays in the States!