Tourists go on whiskey tours in Scotland, bootmaker Lee Miller tells me, so why not take a custom bootmaker tour in America? Could get a little...
Following the Bootmaker Trail
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The International O.K. Corral
The shots heard ’round the world ... the “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.” Those shots still reverberate today in the world of politics, sports and gun...
Gunfighter in Gotham
In the early 1900s, Bat Masterson left the wilds of the West for the bright lights of New York. But the Wild West spirit never really left him....
Hell’s In Session
December 17, 1881 Cowboy James Talbot gets word that his Texas pards are in a jam—again. Hitching a ride on a passing wagon, he and former Deputy...
The 125th Anniversary of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
“Boys, you have got to give up your arms.” If the McLaurys and Clantons had heeded Sheriff Johnny Behan’s request, October 26, 1881, would have been...
On the Cutting Edge
It’s one of the classic scenes in the film Tombstone. The Earps and Clantons are facing off (no, not that faceoff ... yet) after the shooting of...
Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Not four months after the bloodshed at Wounded Knee, 75 Lakota Indians—including 23 presumed “hostiles” who had been confined at Fort Sheridan,...
Spirit Car
This is a haunting story about one woman’s journey into her past. Herself one-quarter Dakota, Wilson embarks on a car trip through South Dakota’s...
Bitter Wind
Disillusioned, Bill Lang rides away from a land-grabbing range war, but death dogs him after he downs a brash gunman in a Cheyenne saloon....
Come Sundown
Honore Greenwood, known to the Indians as Plenty Man, is an admitted murderer, liar and thief. He escaped a French hangman years ago and ran away to...
Smonk
The Rabelaisian Western has arrived. Its grotesque anti-hero, Eugene Oregon Smonk, is a man with a purpose, that of raising as much Cain and killing...
The Skinning Knife
Certainly skinning knives rated as among the most important tools in the frontiersman’s kit, yet little information is available to the enthusiast...