Santa Fe and Hollywood are a long way from Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, but Cherokee actor Wes Studi has found a home in all three worlds. Many critics...
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Johnny D. Boggs
Frontier House
Could a 21st-century family survive in 1883 Montana? That’s the question PBS tried to answer in its excellent six-hour Frontier House, a WNET...
He’s Hung Up His Gun and Badge but James Arness is Still the Marshal
Since 1955, he has towered above all Western lawmen—at least those on television. That’s not just because James Arness, better known as Marshal...
King of Texas
In the new TNT Western movie King of Texas, rancher John Lear has an ego about as big as the newly formed Republic of Texas. He tells his three...
Big Bend in a day
This is where the Comanche War Trail crossed the Texas-Mexico border . . . buffalo soldiers fought Apaches . . . Judge Roy Bean ruled . . ....
MERLIN FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF ‘JERICHO’ and the distribution walls don’t come tumblin’ down
This year’s American Outlaws turned out to be as big a blunder as the James-Younger gang’s Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery. The film’s wretched...
Santa Fe in a day
The City Different is America’s oldest capital city and one of the country’s top tourist destinations with almost 400 years of history, art...
Dodge & Burn
“Our Land Marks Gone,”. . . the headline blared in the Globe Live Stock Journal on Tuesday, December 1, 1885. “THE FIRE FIEND WIPES OUT THE BUSINESS...