I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked the question: How come you Brits are so interested in the American West?
And I know for a fact that the same question is asked of my German, Dutch, Italian, Swiss and even my Japanese friends. Obviously, we’ve all been influenced by the movies we saw as kids, by cap pistols and BB guns, by the games we played and the books we read and are still reading, and our visits, when we’ve made them, to the places where Wild Bill Hickok

November/December 2005