Now Playing: Hollywood Guns
“Why, by God girl, that’s a Colt’s Dragoon,” uttered by none other than John Wayne in 1969’s True Grit. These words, uttered by none other than John Wayne, in his Oscar-winning performance as Marshal Rooster Cogburn in 1969’s True Grit, brought star status to...
Snapshots of Old West History
Our collective American snapshot history began when George Eastman introduced the Kodak camera and roll film in 1888. As the years went on, more and more folks were able to record their favorite memories of their travels. Nowadays pretty much everyone owns a digital...
Cleopatras on the American Nile
If the Colorado River is the “American Nile,” as some fanciful writers have called it, was there a Cleopatra along its banks? More than one woman could claim this title because no less than a half dozen early heroines left their marks on the history of this meandering...
Kearney, Nebraska
For Ronnie O’Brien, her connection to Kearney begins in 1842 in Ireland and ends more than a century and a half later in Nebraska. Her husband’s ancestors, Edmund and Ellen O’Brien, settled along the Wood River in Nebraska. They found a good friend in Pawnee Chief...
True West July/August 2025
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