New Roads to Old Places Back in the late 1800s, cowman Wellington Starkey bought a spread, the Diamond Bar Ranch, near Kingman, Arizona, and the Grand Canyon. Tap Duncan took it over in 1904. The alleged Wild Bunch associate (and indirect kin to our own Bob Boze Bell) built it into one of the prime operations in the region before he died in 1944. The place has been an off-the-beaten-path guest ranch (now called Grand Canyon West) for the last few years. That beaten track is about to get paved
July 2009
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Western Books & Movies
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- How I Ruined My Kids for History
- American West: Then & Now
- What do they use in guns to make them smoke after they’re fired?
- How can I tell original brothel tokens from replicas?
- What is the title of the song sung by the villagers in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch?
- Who was Will McLaury, who was gunned down in Tombstone?
- What Western features an outlaw gang in Seymour, Indiana.
- 10 Ways to Get Your Kids Hooked on History
- Wichita, Kansas
- Vince Murray
- Navajo Country on Horseback
- The Texas Camel Corps Camel Treks
- Living in a 100-Year-Old Mercantile
- Filming the Oregon Trail
- Movie Magic Muzzleloaders
- Keep Up the Fight
- Celebrating July Fourth
- Watch Those Splinters!
- Preservation: Where the Bodies are Buried
- Popular Poppies
- Irate Ira Nails the McClellands!
- Where’s the Beef?