Long before Raquel Welch graced the big screen in nothing but a Mexican poncho, gun belt and Colt .45 in Hannie Caulder, America and the Westerns-loving world fell in love with the original Lady Outlaw, Jane Russell.
Ms. Russell, who changed American cinema and Western movies with her starring role as the voluptuous Rio McDonald in 1943’s The Outlaw, passed away on February 28, 2011. Russell’s role as the bodacious girlfriend of Billy the Kid redefined casting of the femme fatale in Hol

July 2011
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- A Screenwriter’s Five Indispensable Western Books
- Curtiz Hands the Reins to Wayne
- Colt’s Last Wild West Six-Gun
- Nocturnes Hit Million-Dollar Marks
- Love Will Find a Way
- The Civil War
- Bobby Bridger
- El Jovencito
- The Civil War on the Silver Screen
- Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899
- The Suppressed History of America
- Pansy’s History
- Where the West Begins
- The Case of the Indian Trader
- The Bronco Bill Gang
- Great Sioux War Orders of Battle
- The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
- The Mormon Rebellion
- The Cadillac of Cattle Drives
- Top 10 Things to Do in Denver
- Oregon Trail Endangered
- Keeping the Peace
- Bartlesville, Oklahoma
- To Garry Owen in Glory
- The Last Train to Boothill
- Beware of the Dung Tea
- Docs, Dentists & Booze
- The Fabric of the West
- The Last Ride of Bonnie McCarroll
- Viva Outlaw Women