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Blazing Bergman!

Blazing Bergman!

A half-century after Andrew Bergman penned Blazing Saddles, the epic comic Western is still a cultural tour de force. Sure, Andrew Bergman has...

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The Shadow Catcher

The Shadow Catcher

Larry Peterson’s extraordinary new biography of Edward S. Curtis, plus two new classic Westerns, a Pony Express travel adventure and a history of a...

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Missouri Barbecue

Missouri Barbecue

  The word “barbecue” in frontier Missouri was used to describe how meat is cooked and not a food category. In 1899 The Miller County Autogram...

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Rawhide!

Rawhide!

Gettin’ along little dogies up the Western Trail is still a fun road trip today. By the 1880s, time was catching up with the Western Trail—the...

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Winchester Warrior

Winchester Warrior

P.C. Baird enforces the law on the Texas Frontier. The Texas Rangers are arguably the most famous law enforcement agency in U.S. history, and they...

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Sieber Goes Down

Sieber Goes Down

The Apache Kid vs. Al Sieber, Then Everyone in Arizona June 1, 1887 Absent from duty for five days, the Apache Kid, along with four other Apache...

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Wyatt Earp, Wagons and Wild Women

Wyatt Earp, Wagons and Wild Women

What is your opinion of Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp biography Frontier Marshal? Josh Taylor Austin, Texas Much of Lake’s book comes from the fertile...

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The Doctor Was a Woman

The Doctor Was a Woman

With her black bag in hand, Dr. Sofie Herzog broke all barriers as a female frontier physician in Texas.   The gunshot victim occupying a room...

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