When Director Michael Curtiz was shooting 1954’s The Boy from Oklahoma, he probably never imagined this easygoing vehicle for Will Rogers Jr. would become a TV series, but Warner Bros. likely had an inkling that it would. In the 1957 to 1961 ABC series Sugarfoot, Will Hutchins starred as Tom Brewster, a gentle soul wandering the West and looking for his next cowpoke job, while studying law by mail. Without fail, Brewster stumbles into trouble, and he always tries to figure his way out usi
May 2014
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- Brand New Buffalo Bills
- Buffalo Bill Goosed the World’s Fair
- A Bloody Barbed-Wire Battle
- 16 Historical Destinations That Will Make You Weep
- Hideout Hijinks
- Troubled Tom Horn
- The Real Birth of Westerns
- The Curious Murder of Manny Clements
- Victoria Wilcox
- In 1960’s The Alamo, Jim Bowie used a seven-barrel pepperbox rifle. Did such a gun exist? And did the real Bowie have one?
- Do any records indicate Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok met?
- A gambler in a high-stakes poker game runs out of money while holding a winning hand of four aces. He asks the players to pause the game so he can get a loan at the bank. Is this Hollywood or a true story?
- How did “being heeled” come to mean “being armed?”
- Was there a female Texas Ranger during the Old West era?
- Who is the most popular character the Old West ever produced?
- Poverty Croquettes
- SUGARFOOT (SEASON ONE)
- Hunting His Own Kind
- Spirit Warriors Rise Up
- 10 Myths About TOM HORN
- Twain is Born
- Kansas Cattle Towns, Then and Now
- Rough Drafts 5/14
- Ode to the Cowboys
- Robber Baron or Entrepreneur?
- The Duke: A Legendary Life
- Westward Across the Divide
- Gamblers, Gunfighters & Saloon Girls
- Happy Jack
- May 2014 Events
- A True Giant