Truth Be Known

Truth Be Known

Old Vaquero Sayings “Tell me who you are with, and I will tell you who you are.”   Quotes “There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”  —Booker T. Washington “I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered...
Restore the Alamo!

Restore the Alamo!

Gary Foreman is in a new phase of life. Some good. Some not so good. Much yet to be determined. But the man who is the visionary behind the Alamo restoration project, the effort to return the mission to its 1836 configuration, seems a bit calmer these days. Some of it...
No Help for the Alamo

No Help for the Alamo

The whole story of the Alamo is of men willing to die but not to obey. The main battle of the Alamo was in defense of the outer walls. After the Mexicans scaled them, the fiercest fighting was at the long barracks. The final stand of the defenders was in the chapel,...
The Dancing Horse

The Dancing Horse

The Fateful Friendship of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill The Showman, the Chief, and the Birth of America’s Wild West Spectacle   ‘Near the end of the 1882 theatrical season, Buffalo Bill Cody had a fateful lunch in New York City at the restaurant adjacent...
Old West Saviors

Old West Saviors

Soldiering Onward after the LA Inferno Unsung heroes like Dr. Brian Dervin Dillon are emerging after the California fires with a message…listen to the earth and the way of the Native folk. From the ancient land of the Maya to the burning hills along the Pacific coast...