L.R. Millican’s life in Lampasas, Texas, was both lucky and legendary.
Lampasas, for a time, was on the edge of a lively frontier in Texas, and much blood spilled as that border exhaled dust and stampeded westward. Rowdy cowboys, outlaws and others shooting up saloons was commonplace on the frontier. Lawlessness, always ready to engage, leveled its Winchesters and six-shooters at the innocent, guilty and unwitting. Gun smoke lifted, and the targeted lay wounded or dead.
Leander Randon “L.

True West April 2023
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- You Can Never Just Have One
- Abilene, Kansas
- Crazy Horse, Preachers and Horse Thieves
- What History Has Taught Me with Robert Vaughan
- The Lawful and the Lawless
- You Had to Look Hard – The Marquis de Morès Did
- A Champion of the Small Ranchers
- Shooting Back
- Truth Be Known
- Tallyho Coach at Hot Springs, Dakota Territory