The producers of the movie Wild, Wild West were looking for some trains. Not just any trains. One had to look like a post-Civil War locomotive...
The Train Man
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Mark Boardman
The Bloodiest Feud
Feuds are funny things - with one act of violence leading to another (and another and another), it’s sometimes hard to figure out what all the fuss...
The Bloodiest Feud
Feuds are funny things - with one act of violence leading to another (and another and another), it’s sometimes hard to figure out what all the fuss...
Ranch Romances
It started in 1924. He was the strong, silent type, with more than a hint of danger in the way he carried himself. His cowboy hat dipped at a rakish...
Dying Doc, Withered Wyatt?
By 1887, Doc Holliday was in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, taking in the healing waters, trying to nurse his lungs that had been ravaged by...
Gunfighter in Gotham
In the early 1900s, Bat Masterson left the wilds of the West for the bright lights of New York. But the Wild West spirit never really left him....
The Day Coffeyville Bled
So the real story is that the Dalton Gang was led by a woman, and she was secretly married to Bob Dalton and bore him a daughter. Her sister, who...
Saturday Matinee
So they’re not really family—so what. These guys have been playing Saturday matinees at Toronto’s Cameron Public House for nine years, so they’re...
Reno Gang Miffed by Train Takeover
They say there’s honor among thieves. That may or not be so. But Walker Hammond and Michael Colleran learned the hard way that there are outlaw...
Moonlight and Skies
“No message, no agenda, no nothin,’ just a little bunch of songs I’ve always liked.” That’s what Don Edwards says about this record, and his comfort...
Dude! Where’s My Ranch?
Teddy Roosevelt knew what he was talking about. To appreciate properly his fine, manly qualities, the wild rough-rider of the plains should be seen...
Fullerton’s Rangers
Hornung put nearly 40 years into studying New Mexico’s answer to the Texas Rangers, and the result is the first book to cover the Mounted Police....