Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Kirk Ellis grew up all over Texas, but today, when he is not working in Los Angeles, he makes his home with his wife, Sheila, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His love of the West began with his interest in the ancient archeology of the Southwest. He also loved the stories of the Old West he watched on TV and at the movies. His passion for storytelling and history led him to the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema and Television. After graduation, El

March 2016
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- Western Events for March 2016
- The Way to Run a Railroad
- When were boots made specifically for right and left feet?
- Explore! Discover! Get Away!
- The Western Legend
- Climax Jim’s Great Escape
- Carry Nation’s Hatchetation
- Billy the Kid Grew Up Here
- Tom Mix and the West
- Quoting the Old West
- An Englishman’s Adventure
- Indie Westerns Lead the Way
- The Performers of Barbary Coast
- Calling all fire adjusters!
- How to Steal a Wild West Show
- Before William S. Hart Went West
- When did bowling reach Arizona?
- Who Started It?
- Drunk As Skunks
- 80 Skinny Boys
- The Odyssey of the Cherokees
- Paris Catches Wild West Fever
- The Death of Pat Garrett
- Tommyknockers
- Chuckin’ Wagons
- Beating Up the Grocer
- The Three Guardsmen
- To the Old Pueblo by Rail
- The Legend of Kissing Jenny
- My copy of Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal is signed by L. Ross Earp and given to me by his sister, Bess Earp. Were they descended from any of the famed Earp brothers?
- The Western That Never Happened
- Black Hills Betrayal
- 150 Years on the Goodnight-Loving Trail
- Billy’s Bro
- A Smokin’ Good Time
- Tim Timberlake’s Last Assignment
- The Sound of the Alamo
- Nogales, Oklahoma
- A Murder of Crows
- How does the magazine separate history from legend, particularly in regards to the Earps and Tombstone?
- James Drury
- Shoot ‘em Down Sam
- A Surprise for Lewis and Clark
- Swashbuckler to Scam Artist
- The Duke’s Last Film
- Elmer McCurdy’s Misfortune
- Ride with the Apaches
- Rough Rider Artist
- The Original Pike Bishop
- The Real Arizona Charlie
- The Vásquez Incursion
- Al Jennings, Oklahoma Bad Boy
- What A Fox
- Mannen Clements’ Revenge
- The Eternal Custer
- How many Old West women robbed a train, bank or stagecoach?
- Tough Old Bird
- A Lively Corpse
- Barney Riggs vs “Killin” Jim Miller
- Five Western Favorites
- Branding
- One of the Dirtiest Places in the World
- The Odyssey of A Westerner
- The Fort Nobody Forgot
- The Legend of “Killin” Jim Miller
- Lone Star Chili
- Billy the Kid
- Kirk Ellis
- His Final, Frantic Defense
- Will Rogers in Arizona
- Patrolling the Border for Unwanted Immigrants