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More than a Barkeep

More than a Barkeep

The movies portray Milt Joyce as your basic barkeep, a working owner of Tombstone’s Oriental Saloon.  And that’s just one small slice of this...

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Doc’s Diet

Doc’s Diet

True West caught up with Dennis Quaid who will serve as Grand Marshal of the Doc Holli-Days parade in Tombstone, Arizona, this August 11. Nearly 25...

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Rough Drafts

Rough Drafts

Summer vacations are a great time to catch up on reading, so why not pack a few good Western novels and Old West histories and biographies to enjoy...

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Frontier Women

Frontier Women

“I felt a secret joy to have the power that set things straight.” Anonymous Women performed a labor more valuable than gold by pressing for schools,...

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The Gang Lawyer

The Gang Lawyer

Jason Brevoort Brown was an opportunist, a lawyer and politician in Indiana during the last half of the 19th century.  He represented the Jackson...

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Rattlesnake Bites

Rattlesnake Bites

It’s the time of year when rattlesnakes are more likely to hole up during the daytime and be active at night so I thought it best to share what to...

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Ride That Train!

Ride That Train!

In 1868, America was anticipating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad within the next year. The Central Pacific from Sacramento...

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Land Grabbers

Land Grabbers

By 1865, the Wilkison Reno family owned more land than anyone else in Jackson County, IN.  They got it the old fashioned way: crime. The acquired...

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Bisbee Queen of the Copper Camps

Bisbee Queen of the Copper Camps

In the spring of 1877 Sergeant Jack Dunn, a government scout from Fort Bowie, was winding his way down what later became known as Tombstone Canyon...

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