How did Hollywood create those resonant gunshot sounds in 1940s and 1950s B-Westerns? Rick Miller Harker Heights, Texas Our gun and Western film...
When a famous gunfighter came to town, would most folks have recognized him? Tom Smith, Mitchellville, Iowa He probably would have gotten a look...
Anthony Mann and James Stewart’s directorial collaborations, beginning with Winchester ’73, are usually considered the ultimate of Universal...
Regarding the July 2013 Opening Shot of Pat Garrett and crew sitting on the dock: This building is new, the corners of the adobe have not rounded...
On Christmas Eve in 1986, Clayton Moore flew into Houston, Texas, and discovered his luggage was lost, an unfortunate, but rather commonplace, event...
It’s the night before the annual pie festival in the aptly named Pie Town, New Mexico, and Michael Rawl is still inside the Good Pie Café, chatting...
In 1898, Albert Afraid of Hawk had the opportunity of a lifetime. He was hired as a performer with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West, heady stuff for an...
"Mother said to father, while on the train and looking at the herds of cattle through the window: ‘We can be sure of one item of food and that is...
Joan Anderson Meacham remembers being “so irritated and angry.” In 1979, the educated, 44 year old serving on the Advisory Committee on the Status...
April 7, 1859 After months on the trail from California’s Fort Tejon, Samuel Bishop and 23 volunteers mount 20 camels and a couple mules at one in...
"Go west young man and grow with the country,” wrote one news reporter, and, at 17, Jack Swilling went west to do just that. Born John William...
"I prefer working where I can control things, and you can’t outdoors.” The surprising, almost stunning, part about that quote is that it came from...