What people don’t understand about cowboy poetry is that it’s not just about cowboying, cows, horses and living on the range, but it is anything in...
Waddie Mitchell
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Equitrekking the American West
My Emmy Award-winning TV show Equitrekking is a visual testimony to the trail rides I cover for you here in True West. For the TV crew, it’s all...
Equitrekking the American West
My Emmy Award-winning TV show Equitrekking is a visual testimony to the trail rides I cover for you here in True West. For the TV crew, it’s all...
A Cowboy Classic is Created
Did you know that the world’s best-known “cowboy six-shooter,” the 1873 Colt Single Action Army (SAA), started its career as a military sidearm,...
A Cowboy Classic is Created
Did you know that the world’s best-known “cowboy six-shooter,” the 1873 Colt Single Action Army (SAA), started its career as a military sidearm,...
Saving the Wrong Guys
Many classic Westerns feature the timeworn device of the last-minute cavalry rescue. The baddies are Indians, besieging a wagon train or surrounding...
Saving the Wrong Guys
Many classic Westerns feature the timeworn device of the last-minute cavalry rescue. The baddies are Indians, besieging a wagon train or surrounding...
Following John Wesley Hardin Across Texas
Everybody is soooooo nice in Bonham, Texas, I find it hard to believe that this is the place that gave birth to a psycho, bigoted, cold-blooded...
Following John Wesley Hardin Across Texas
Everybody is soooooo nice in Bonham, Texas, I find it hard to believe that this is the place that gave birth to a psycho, bigoted, cold-blooded...
A Cure for Baldness?
For centuries, bread has been a food staple. “I got six loaves of bread for a quarter at a bakery, and a bucket of syrup at a grocery...I would dip...
A Cure for Baldness?
For centuries, bread has been a food staple. “I got six loaves of bread for a quarter at a bakery, and a bucket of syrup at a grocery...I would dip...
The Myth of the Single Shot Kill
Is it physically possible to stop a man dead in his tracks? For decades, Hollywood has routinely depicted bad and, occasionally, good guys being...