A sterling reputation won’t block a lead bullet. Famed Old West lawman Bill Tilghman learned that lesson firsthand, in an ugly, smelly, Oklahoma oil town in the mid-1920s.
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July 2014
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- Finding Gold & Gunfights in Helena
- Gems Along the Continental Divide
- A Hunter’s Classic Returns
- The Killing of Bill Tilghman
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Uncle Wyatt’s Gun?
- Dalton Debacle
- The Gunfighters
- Bill O’Neal
- Was Jack Schaefer’s book Shane based on any real-life Old West characters?
- Were duster coats common outerwear on the frontier?
- True West’s Feb. 2014 issue states that Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp’s father was a common baker. Movies claim he was wealthy. Which is it?
- What is a medicine wheel?
- Was horse theft a capital offense during the Old West era?
- Where is Lincoln County War figure Bob Olinger buried?
- Spicing Up the Frontier
- Saving the Wall Street of the West
- Gold & Gambling
- Outlaw Joel Fowler
- A Million Ways to Laugh in the West
- Crusade for Justice on Minnesota Frontier
- Rough Drafts 7/14
- Carson’s Cannons Win the Day
- Frontier Photographers Reveal Our Past
- La Gente Nuevo of Spanish North America
- Debut Western Rides Hard Across Arizona Territory
- July 2014 Events