Most of us agree the American Cowboy was born somewhere in Texas but metaphorically speaking, where were his parents from? If we ride the backtrail in search of the origins of that legendary breed of horsemen where would that trail lead us? Three passionate historians, Lee Anderson, Alan Huffines and Stuart Rosebrook make their case for the true location of Cowboy Ground Zero. The Case For North Africa: By Stuart Rosebrook When I was ten years old, growing up in North Hollywood, California,

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