by Johnny D. Boggs | Feb 1, 2003 | Travel & Preservation
“Far away from my wife and child, and six hundred miles of constant danger in an uninhabited region was not a pleasant prospect for contemplation,” Santa Fe Trail traveler Hezekiah Brake noted in 1858. “But I laughed with the rest, joked about roasting our bacon...
by Robert K. DeArment | Jan 1, 2003 | Features & Gunfights
Enforcing the law in the early West was a vocation for stout, fearless men. And yet there were at least three who extended the long arm of the law to apprehend malefactors, even after they had only one arm to extend. Virgil Earp was the most famous of the three...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jan 1, 2003 | Features & Gunfights
They were so bold, so brave and so bodacious that their journey would not only be America’s first great expedition, but also its most important one until man walked on the moon 165 years later. It’s impossible to talk about Lewis and Clark without using superlatives:...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jan 1, 2003 | Art, Guns and Culture
They were so bold, so brave and so bodacious that their journey would not only be America’s first great expedition, but also its most important one until man walked on the moon 165 years later. It’s impossible to talk about Lewis and Clark without using superlatives:...
by Daniel Buck and Anne Meadows | Nov 1, 2002 | Western Movies
The Hole-in-the-Wall filmography includes the original, the prequels, the sequels and the non sequiturs. •Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): A comic Western in a 1960s-mellow, New York wiseacre style. Although the film premiered as the curtain was dropping on...