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Alamo’s New Defender

Alamo’s New Defender

by | Feb 13, 2011 | Features & Gunfights

James Butler Bonham faced his moment of truth in the pre-dawn of March 6, 1836. He and a handful of Texians reportedly manned an elevated artillery position at the back of the church at the Mission San Antonio de Valero—better known as the Alamo. Mexican soldiers were...
On Location!

On Location!

by | Apr 1, 2007 | Western Movies

Harry Goulding sure didn’t come across as a Hollywood Western hero. But he was. Harry got there by a meandering route, though. In the 1920s, he and his wife set up a trading post in southern Utah, just north of the Arizona border. There were no paved roads through the...
On Location!

On Location!

by | Apr 1, 2007 | Western Movies

Harry Goulding sure didn’t come across as a Hollywood Western hero. But he was. Harry got there by a meandering route, though. In the 1920s, he and his wife set up a trading post in southern Utah, just north of the Arizona border. There were no paved roads through the...