Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Well, actually they were roasting on a gas barbecue grill, but those warm chestnuts made good hand warmers in the crisp, cold December air at Christmas Market in Georgetown, Colorado. At an open fire nearby, people turned and toasted to warm up, whenever they weren’t standing in line for a hot drink or watching St. Nicholas lead the Santa Lucia Children’s Procession into downtown Georgetown. Carolers took turns singing traditional Christmas songs, with

December 2013
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- Lynch Mob Law
- Rough Drafts 12/13
- Durango, Colorado
- The Two-Reel Texas Rascal
- Courage Under Fire
- Home Brewed Gun Show
- Geronimo!
- Tracks that Speak
- The Frontier Christmas Trail
- Rat Pack Troopers
- The Flawed Gentleman Bandit
- Getting Shotgun Loaded
- The credits for Tombstone list a Wyatt Earp III in the cast. What is his relationship to the original Wyatt?
- Was the Lost Dutchman Mine real?
- December 2013 Events
- The Shirt of a Condemned Man
- A Literary Life of Adventure
- “Free as the Winds,” Red Cloud Soared Above the Rest
- A Timeless Tale of an American Family
- Christopher Price
- A Cement Pudding
- The Three Godfathers
- A Rope for a Rat
- What are tintypes?
- How were guns cleaned in the Old West?
- Does The Searchers movie have any basis in fact?
- Where is Cowboy Ground Zero?
- Jeffrey Richardson’s favorite reads
- Hero’s Triumph and Tragedy