Trailing Them North
Follow the Western Cattle Trail from Bandera, Texas, to Miles City, Montana. All Images by Johnny D. Boggs Unless Otherwise Indicated Blame it on Babesia bigemina. That little parasitic protozoa found a home in ticks, which found a home on Texas longhorn...
Segregation in the Old West
In the Netflix film, The Harder They Fall, a western movie about black outlaws in the 1880’s and 1890’s, it shows the Old West with “Black towns” and “White towns”! Was there racial separation in the Old West? For example, where did...
Tombstone: On the Cutting Room Floor
Historians, actors and film critics weigh in on Kevin Jarre’s original script—and whether it should be remade and finally get its DUE. Everyone seems to agree that Kevin Jarre’s original script for Tombstone was brilliant. So why hasn’t someone dusted off the source...
The Lone Star Myth of John Ringo
His time in Texas was not what it’s been cracked up to be. In August 19, 1875, a rider—or maybe riders—approached the Bader ranch in Mason County, Texas. He went out to the fields, where Karl “Charlie” Bader was working the land. Exactly what happened is not known,...
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