To say that Alamo movies are historically inaccurate is a bit like saying that Godzilla is a tad green and scaly. Most filmmakers couldn’t care less...
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Rotting Face
In April 1837, the steamboat St. Peter’s left St. Louis and headed up the Missouri River to deliver supplies to the trading posts of Pratte,...
Tribal Radio
In this age of digital satellite downlinks, online streaming, and high-tech communications systems, Indian Country is making the most of a...
Real To Reel
It’s possible that Doc Holliday never made a house call, yet there are few Americans who don’t know him. In fact, it’s doubtful that anyone since...
Justice Comes To Nevada
When you think of the far West before statehood, you tend to equate justice with “hemp justice,” Judge Lynch; vigilante stringing up outlaws on the...
Arikara Toll Gate
It was in March of 1822 that the now-famous advertisement appeared in the Missouri Republican: TO ENTERPRISING YOUNG MEN. The subscriber wishes to...
Rhyolite or Bust
Imagine entering a town that, technically, no longer exists. Imagine the bustling town; the thousands of people whose hopes and dreams came to life...
Santa Fe in a day
The City Different is America’s oldest capital city and one of the country’s top tourist destinations with almost 400 years of history, art...
Ranch Hand Rodeo
When I was a kid picking cotton in Texas, certain drugstore cowboys sang a song that went: When it’s roundup time in Texas, And the bloom is on the...
MERLIN FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF ‘JERICHO’ and the distribution walls don’t come tumblin’ down
This year’s American Outlaws turned out to be as big a blunder as the James-Younger gang’s Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery. The film’s wretched...
State Of Native America
It’s the part of America that most of America doesn’t want to talk about and knows absolutely nothing about—the Indian reservation. It’s simply...
Can you give me any information about a photo where, somewhere in Arizona, a group of cowboys had their picture taken with a corpse? I heard they were drinking a toast to the dead man.
Can you give me any information about a photo where, somewhere in Arizona, a group of cowboys had their picture taken with a corpse? I heard they...