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Have Bar Will Travel

by Gary Ledoux | Jan 1, 2003

If it could talk, what stories this old bar could tell. Wyatt Earp himself likely dispensed beer, wine and spirits from behind its mahogany facade...

Everybody Hates Me!

by Lucky Bonner | Jan 1, 2003

Terry “Ike” Clanton, 44, is proud of his outlaw relatives. He thinks they got a raw deal at the so-called O.K. Corral gunfight. And he thinks Ike is...

Desert Caballeros Western Museum

by R.G. Robertson | Jan 1, 2003

More than 500 handcrafted items—furniture, tablewear, leatherwork, jewelry, clothing and custom saddles—that embody the spirit of the American West...

O Homo

by Leo W. Banks | Nov 1, 2002

In the summer of 1891, one of Tombstone’s most infamous characters showed up in town without a gun, without a name and without clothes. That’s...

Day Trip to Taos

by M.J. Van Deventer | Nov 1, 2002

Taos is about as close as you can come to visiting a foreign country in the United States. Nestled at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in...

Oregon Trail: Independence, Missouri, to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska

by Candy Moulton | Nov 1, 2002

Hopeful faces turned westward more than 150 years ago as the greatest pioneer movement in history began along the Oregon Trail. Although the people...

The Hole-In-The-Wall Nickelodeon

by Daniel Buck and Anne Meadows | Nov 1, 2002

The Hole-in-the-Wall filmography includes the original, the prequels, the sequels and the non sequiturs. •Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969):...

O Homo

by Leo W. Banks | Nov 1, 2002

In the summer of 1891, one of Tombstone’s most infamous characters showed up in town without a gun, without a name and without clothes. That’s...

Bogus Butches

by Daniel Buck and Anne Meadows | Nov 1, 2002

The Internet auction service, eBay, is a hothouse of Butch and Sundance photographs. Images turn up on eBay with little more provenance than “You be...