It took more than just the ability to shoot fast and straight to make a real gunfighter. Anyone who practiced long and often enough could learn to draw and fire with unerring accuracy at an inanimate object or animal. But it took a special kind of coolness to shoot straight and true at another human being who was trying to shoot you at the same time. Combine that with making split-second decisi

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus