Ya gotta love those charming specimens of Eve’s flesh who came West to “make their fortunes” as entertainers. Among them were the Waddling Duck, the Galloping Cow, the Dancing Heifer, the Roaring Gimlet, Lady Jane Grey, the Little Lost Chicken and Big Bertha. It’s assumed these weren’t the names given them by their parents.
They were billed as performers but their limitatio

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus