Art, Guns and Culture
Missouri Barbecue

Missouri Barbecue

  The word “barbecue” in frontier Missouri was used to describe how meat is cooked and not a food category. In 1899 The Miller County Autogram...

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Secret Agent Man

Secret Agent Man

A legendary screenwriter gets his final byline. In early 2003 my agent called me to tell me the Westerns Channel wanted to start running True West...

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Dude Spotting

Dude Spotting

It’s harder to spot real cowboys than you might think.   In my experience, nobody looks at a photograph of a welder and says, “That’s not a...

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