The year was 1871, and the infamous James-Younger Gang was looking for some new revenue sources. The boys had pretty much stuck to targets in their...
Robbing the Yankees
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Trailing the First Indian Person
“Yes, we have Standing Bear, too,” Betty Davis tells me when I spy the photograph of the legendary Ponca chief at the Douglas County Historical...
“Western Movie” Night … at the Museum
For 50 years, Teddy Roosevelt has had his eye on Sacagawea. When Larry, the nightshift guard at Roosevelt’s namesake museum, convinces the former...
Mellonsfolly’s Wild West
When the creation legend of a country consists of its North Island being the fish, the South Island, the canoe in which the fisherman sat, and...
A Man That Won’t Bend
Being an outlaw is no way to win a popularity contest. Royal Wade Kimes was with buddy Garth Brooks and his dad. Ray Brooks pointed toward Kimes:...
Those Aren’t Russian Cossacks!
“This is not a circus but an ethnographical exhibition; the people of various nations clad in their national outfit and ammunition enact...
Madonna of the Western Trails
Dragging a weary child and cradling a baby, she knew how to fire a weapon and kept her gun close. Just exactly where she was going, she didn’t know....
The Train Man
The producers of the movie Wild, Wild West were looking for some trains. Not just any trains. One had to look like a post-Civil War locomotive...
The Train Man
The producers of the movie Wild, Wild West were looking for some trains. Not just any trains. One had to look like a post-Civil War locomotive...
I’m making models of authentic Western homes/ranches. Can you tell me more about the use of glass in the Old West?
I’m making models of authentic Western homes/ranches. Can you tell me more about the use of glass in the Old West? Randy Giesey Wheeling, Illinois...
I’m making models of authentic Western homes/ranches. Can you tell me more about the use of glass in the Old West?
I’m making models of authentic Western homes/ranches. Can you tell me more about the use of glass in the Old West? Randy Giesey Wheeling, Illinois...
Adair Before They Die
July 15, 1892 Riding eight strong, the Dalton Gang enters Adair, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). They commandeer the train station,...