Encore’s Westerns Channel has announced that, beginning in 2010, the channel will be broadcasting a new batch of vintage TV Westerns, including Gunsmoke; Have Gun, Will Travel and Rawhide. The cabler also intends to bring back Wagon Train, The Virginian, Laredo and, most important, Lawman, a top-quality, black-and-white, half-hour series that ran on ABC from 1958-1962. Lawman, starring John Russell and Peter Brown, has yet to resurface as a DVD or VHS tape, so it’s understandable that the fa

January/February 2010
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- True West’s Best of the West 2010 Winners
- Did cowboys on the trail prefer to smoke cigarettes, pipes or cigars?
- What is the Bascom Affair?
- An old man who died in San Diego in 1948 claimed on his deathbed to be gunman “Buckskin” Frank Leslie.
- Why did Gene Autry wear a double buscadero rig with only one holster?
- When did regular bathing become the norm in the Old West?
- Did Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders include any outlaws or lawmen?
- Got Gold … In Your Closet?
- Following Calamity Jane
- The “New” Old Ancestors
- The Original Boot Hill
- How to Own a Dixon on a Low Budget
- Auld Lang Syne
- An Insane Treatment
- Choose the Right Felt Hat
- Happy 400th Birthday, Santa Fe
- Horsey Adventures in Fort Worth
- Cactus Camp
- Lynda A. Sanchez
- Glenwood Springs, Colorado
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2010