In Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, Robert DeNiro and his buddies steal some cash and use it to see The Searchers. To some, Scorsese’s tribute to an old John Ford/John Wayne Western must have felt wildly out of place in the middle of a scorching New York street flick. Author Glenn Frankel would not agree. Like Scorsese, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist experienced a signature moment when a work of art touches so deeply, it stays with you forever. “I’m not even sure how old I was

July 2013
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- Billy the Kid’s New Mexico
- Custer’s Little Bighorn Battlefield
- Quanah Parker’s Comanche Country
- Tombstone’s O.K. Corral
- Stalwart Army Sweethearts
- Was Bass Reeves the Real Lone Ranger?
- Tom Mix’s Wild West
- Gold Rush Country
- Great Road Reads
- A Poor Man’s Search for Charlie Russell
- Bloody Siege at Milk Creek
- Searching for The Searchers
- A Mandan Circle Unbroken
- Lee Marvin: Point Blank
- Death by Rolling Pin?
- What do you know about a bank holdup in Hatch, New Mexico?
- Mysterious Dave
- Power on the Plains
- This is a Hold Up
- Who actually shot the coin tossed in the air in the movie Winchester ‘73?
- Not a Pipe Dream
- Following an American Patriot
- Bloody Sunday Riot
- Left for Dead
- Fort Smith, Arkansas
- July 2013 Events
- Casey Tefertiller
- When were photos first put on wanted posters?
- I’ve read that Sheriff John Behan was a scoundrel in Tombstone during the trouble years. Is that the case?
- Cheyenne / The Boy From Oklahoma
- The Mysterious Journey of Billy the Kid’s Trigger Finger
- The Missing Lincoln
- Billy the Kid is best known for his time in New Mexico, but did he also spend time in Arizona?
- New Releases-Historical Fiction
- New Releases-Historical Non-Fiction
- Hot Summer Reads