What was it John Wayne said in Red River? “Ten miles a day will be good. Fifteen will be luck.” Sounds just about right.
I’m inching my way toward the Dallas North Tollway on the way to Frisco, Texas, and it looks like all 1.2 million Dallasites have the same idea. I bet, however, I’m the only one with any interest in the Shawnee Trail.
Look around. Just west of Big D, the Fort Worth Stockyards relive those trail-driving years with a twice-daily cattle drive down Exchange Avenue. T

February 2013
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- E.M. Horton
- Fifty Years of The Virginian
- The Mean-Nice Man
- The 5-Man Army
- February 2013 Events
- Inventive to a Fault the inventor and the tycoon
- Object: Matrimony
- With Blood in Their Eyes
- Comanche Crusader
- Weapons of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Geronimo by Robert M. Utley
- Frontier “Forty Four”
- Bruce Boxleitner
- In November 2012, True West discussed the “45 Lawmen You’d Want On Your Side.” Bass Outlaw is one—but he’s later listed as an outlaw. So was he somebody you wanted on your side—or a bad guy you didn’t want to mess with?
- Were gun silencers used during the Old West era?
- When did the last U.S. stagecoach robbery take place?
- How many prospectors got rich during the California gold rush?
- What was the first college created to educate American Indians?
- When the pioneers crossed treeless country, where did the women go to the bathroom?
- Matt Braun Picks
- Black Gold Gushers
- Historical Twins
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2013
- “War to the Death”
- Honor in Defeat
- The Rocky Mountain Rangers
- Men Behaving Badly
- The Death Tent
- Almost Getting Killed…
- The Tucked-In Rangers
- Sourdough
- Looking for the Shawnee Trail