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Gunpowder and Smoke

Gunpowder and Smoke

The West was immense, and frontier law enforcement sparse.  Wise individuals carried firearms and knew how to use them. Some men and women became...

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Ditch the Derby

Ditch the Derby

One of the problems Bat Masterson has in terms of his Old West legend is he is typecast as a city slicker, always wearing a derby. But the real Bat...

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Truth Be Known

Truth Be Known

Old Vaquero Saying “If you sit around a campfire long enough, everyone becomes a storyteller.”   Quotes “It may be that them whose pleasure...

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Deadly Gunplay

Deadly Gunplay

Charles M. Russell’s 1908 Smoke of a .45 captures the violent chaos caused by short tempers and whiskey on the Western frontier. Courtesy Google Art...

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