The story goes that Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman was tracking the Doolin Gang in January 1895. He entered a dugout on the Dunn ranch, looking for the outlaws. Several gang members, hidden behind blankets, leveled Winchesters at Tilghman—but Doolin himself stopped them from shooting the lawman in the back.
It didn’t happen. Remnants of the dugout show it was too small for a man to stand in. And f

September 2013
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- Rough Drafts 9/13
- What did U.S. lawmen think of the North West Mounted Police?
- When a famous gunfighter came to town, would most folks have recognized him?
- How did Hollywood create those resonant gunshot sounds in 1940s and 1950s B-Westerns?
- Western Horizons
- Opening Shot Dissected…
- The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
- The Pies Have It
- Butter Me Up
- Long Road Home for Buffalo Bill Indian
- Who is Alice Paul?
- The Edge of Perfection
- The Final Camel Charge
- Jack Swilling
- Lights, Camera, Miracle?
- Great Movie (and TV) Hats
- The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
- A Ride on the Wild Side
- Frontier Cavalry Trooper
- Dirty Words in Deadwood
- Skull in the Ashes
- Night Riders in the Tallgrass
- Max Evans’s Favorite Nature Reads
- On the Trail of Solomon Butcher
- Queen of the Cowtowns
- September 2013 Events