Already TNT is promoting its summer miniseries Into the West as a historically accurate saga that will tell both sides of the American frontier. Of course, it’s easy to be cynical in this day and age, and I can’t help but remember talking to a movie producer back in 1982 during the running of NASCAR’s Southern 500. There have been so many bad films about NASCAR, the producer told me while shooting footage for the movie he was backing, but his flick was going to go deeper, tell the tru

June 2005
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- Someone told me that a man would not use cologne in the 1890s. Is this true?
- Why is Warren Earp hardly mentioned in the movies?
- According to George Durham’s Taming the Nueces Strip, John “King” Fisher wore tiger skin chaps. I’ve had a pair made for SASS parties (no cats were harmed in the making of these chaps). Are the original chaps in a museum?
- Which one of Bill Tilghman’s sons became a criminal and died holding up a craps table?
- Which one of Bill Tilghman’s sons became a criminal and died holding up a craps table? Was it Woody or Tench?
- Victorio’s Right Hand
- Saddle Pals
- Trailing Doc Holliday through Colorado
- Supercharged
- Capturing Protectors of Peace
- Short One Bead
- Shotguns at Midnight
- Elusive Witch’s Brew