At the end of a perfect road trip would be a honky-tonk saloon pouring 50-cent drafts, a jukebox filled with 45s and Gretchen Wilson singing her outlaw anthems. Actually, this past July, Gretchen and Big & Rich brought their Extreme Muzik Tour to the West’s newest haunted honky-tonk, the Deadwood Mountain Grand Casino. The former 1906 Homestake Mine plant sits above South Dakota’s Deadwood Gulch, making it the perfect venue for America’s Queen of Outlaw Country to strut her r

October 2011
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- Who is the Indian who appeared on a TV talk show, claiming to have been at the Little Big Horn as a child?
- Where is Morgan Earp’s wife, Louisa, buried?
- True West Book of the Month
- The Assassination of Governor Boggs
- The Doctor’s Lady
- Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten
- Violent Encounters
- Quantrill at Lawrence: The Untold Story
- On the Trail of the Dalton Gang
- The Modern Tom Wilsons
- Gretchen Wilson
- The Tombstone that Might Have Been
- Judgment of Paris
- Six-Guns Blaze in Smokewood, Nevada
- Buckin’ for Buck
- Berries, and I Don’t Mean Whistle
- What’s It Like to Live There—Topeka, Kansas
- Did Doc Holliday Start the Fight?
- Artists We Love
- Wall Drug of South Dakota
- Wall Drug of South Dakota
- Artistas & Fashionistas
- How common were common-law marriages in the Old West?
- The Historic Arkansas Museum has a Bowie knife that’s marked Number 1. Is it the original?
- Did depositors lose their money when a bank was robbed in the Old West?
- Stan Lynde
- Sioux Success, Against All Odds
- Tributes to Kevin Jarre (1954-2011)
- October 2011 Events
- A Grave Matter
- 1956’s The Last Frontier
- Lone Ranger in Limbo
- Harrison Ford as Wyatt Earp
- John Ford’s Stamp
- Roy Rogers Turns 100
- Deadwood Strikes Gold with Mining Relic