Executive director of the John Wayne Birthplace Museum in Winterset, Iowa, since 2008, Brian Downes oversees the only museum in the world dedicated...
What History Has Taught Me: Brian Downes
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What History Has Taught Me
What History Has Taught Me: Max Allan Collins
In the photo above, Max Allan Collins sits at right next to his writing partner, the late Mickey Spillane, for the Kensington series of Caleb York...
What History Has Taught Me: Dan Harshberger
A Commercial Art graduate of Northern Arizona University, Dan Harshberger grew up with his best bud, Bob Boze Bell, in Kingman, Arizona. In the...
What History Has Taught Me: Reba McEntire
This November, the National Cowgirl Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, inducted Reba McEntire and her mother, Jacqueline, into the Hall of Fame. An...
What History Has Taught Me: Ron Lesser
The poster I love the most, out of the more than 100 movie and television show posters I have created, is the one for 1973’s High Plains Drifter,...
What History Has Taught Me: Mark Boardman
My favorite Old West character is Jim Miller. We still don’t know everything he did or all the people he killed. We have more to discover about this...
What History Has Taught Me: Cheryl Rogers Barnett
After her mother died shortly after giving birth to Roy “Dusty” Jr., Cheryl found a mom in actress Dale Evans and became the second oldest of nine...
What History Has Taught Me: Howard Kazanjian
Emmy Award-winning film producer Howard Kazanjian is best known for his work on The Wild Bunch, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars. A former vice...
What History Has Taught Me: Gary L. Roberts
Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday Biographer An emeritus professor of history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, Gary Roberts...
What History Has Taught Me: Rex Allen Jr., Country Singer
Rex Allen Jr., Country Singer Rex Allen Jr., son of the “last singing cowboy,” is retiring this year; his “Sunrise to Sunset” tour will conclude...
What History Has Taught Me: Drew Gomber, History Buff
For 15 years, Drew Gomber led tourists on tours of historic Lincoln and Lincoln County in New Mexico, helping them walk in the footsteps of Billy...
What History Has Taught Me: Ron Hansen, Author
Growing up in Omaha, Ron Hansen found the Old West present in Nebraska’s cornfields, wilderness and railroad tracks full of empty boxcars. Following...