Roll Along, Wagon Train “Gotta keep ’em on the run. Time to go! And follow the sun. Roll along, Wagon Train.” Ward Bond played the wagonmaster on...
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Ugly Ducklings of Frontier Six-shooters
The few surviving factory records reveal that Merwin, Hulbert & Co. was organized in 1874, when New England inventive genius and savvy...
No Compromise with War
When it comes to women in politics, Western women have always led the way. They did so back in 1916, even before all women had the vote, and in the...
Broken Trail Spin-Offs
Broken Trail, the made-for-TV Western starring Thomas Haden Church (shown) and Robert Duvall, made the AMC cabler very happy. Besides pulling in...
Broken Trail Spin-Offs
Broken Trail, the made-for-TV Western starring Thomas Haden Church (shown) and Robert Duvall, made the AMC cabler very happy. Besides pulling in...
Moses Taite’s War
According to Variety, Morgan Freeman, who last saddled up in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning Unforgiven, is looking to launch an Eastern/Western that...
Moses Taite’s War
According to Variety, Morgan Freeman, who last saddled up in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning Unforgiven, is looking to launch an Eastern/Western that...
Queen of Country Swing’s Tough Mamas
Honkytonk Sue, the Queen of Country Swing, has been dispensing her sage advice since she first appeared in the June 1977 National Lampoon. She saves...
A Tale of Two Governors…
One put him under the ground, the other tried to pull him up, and both left him out to dry. Despite Billy the Kid’s best efforts, and those of his...
Dreamscape Desperado
"Billy the Kid just keeps riding across the dreamscape of our minds-silhouetted against a starlit Western sky, handsome, laughing, deadly." When I...
Sacking Lawrence
The clerk at the bookstore recommends that I grab supper and a beer at the Free State Brewing Company. “Are you serious?” I ask. He assures me it’s...
An Endless Attraction to Billy
Michael Wallis’s first outlaw biography was on Oklahoma’s social bandit Pretty Boy Floyd, published in 1992. Now he’s written Billy the Kid: The...