Mark Bedor, Author and Film Maker Mark Bedor is the creator and host of Today’s Wild West, an award-winning documentary-style TV series on all...
What History Has Taught Me: Mark Bedor
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Articles
Long Johns, Dirty Dave and the Bird Cage
What did cowboys wear as underwear? Ethan Cooperrider Coulee City, Washington Long johns were first introduced into England in the 17th century,...
Two-Lane Blacktops and Red Dirt Highways
Pack your bags and head West for adventures filled with fun and history. Road tripping across the West has come a long way from the...
Bozeman, Montana
Plan a trip to the eclectic Big Sky college town and relax in its great Western vibe. After statehood in 1889, Montana towns fought bitterly...
Walter Hill Returns
The award-winning Hollywood icon saddles back up for Dead for a Dollar, a new Western. Having not directed a Western since 2006’s...
Expanding Horizon
Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning, plus a Texas Ranger history, a dual biography of Cody and Hickok, a novel of the Mississippi frontier and a...
Look’s Market
After 140 years, a legendary South Dakota butcher shop is still in business. It was 1883 when Carl Look, an apprenticed German butcher, and his...
Following Fremont
The Pathfinder’s 1843 expedition across the West is still a grand route for adventurous travelers. John C. Fremont, known as The...
Captain of All Rangers for Life
Texas Ranger Jim Gillett writes himself into fame. Jim Gillett was just 20 years old when he decided to join the Texas Rangers in...
The Battle of Battle Flat
Five Prospectors vs. 50 Yavapais Maps & Graphics by Gus Walker Based on the research of John Langellier and Jack McPhee June 2,...
Into the Den of Infamy
The Last Hours of the Notorious King Fisher The hack delivered King Fisher and Ben Thompson to the Vaudeville Theatre within a few minutes, as it...
One Ranger, One Riot
Ten Texas Rangers who never stood down Now riding into their third century, one of the nation’s oldest law enforcement agencies carries a...