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What were Old West jails like?

What were Old West jails like?

What were Old West jails like? Richard Olson Bagley, Minnesota For the most part, the Hollywood cliché of a frontier jail, with open bars on the...

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The Great Menken

The Great Menken

Provocative encores could be lucrative in those rich mining towns of the West. Adah Issacs Menken, a free-spirited performer, appeared in La Mezappa...

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Townful of Santas

Townful of Santas

Minden bills itself as “Nebraska’s Christmas City,” stringing 15,000 lights throughout its town square to seal the deal. But to know why this town...

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Life in Tombstone

Life in Tombstone

While looking through the dog-eared copy of one of my favorite authors and mentor, Dr. Leland Sonnichson’s Billy King’s Tombstone, I see that,...

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Supreme Cowgirl

Supreme Cowgirl

This Arizona cowgirl grew up on the Lazy B, a cattle ranch near Duncan. Her father, Harry Day, expected her to pull her own weight and learn the...

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