What History Has Taught Me: Tom Kramer
Tom Kramer Tom Kramer was born and raised in Missouri but headed west to Hollywood at age 19. He is a three-time Emmy nominee and Writers Guild of America Award-winner on television shows that include Candid Camera (head writer) and HBO’s Curb Your...
Little Joe, Boot Hill and Doc Holliday
Are Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers really buried where the markers are placed at Tombstone’s Boothill Graveyard? James Carroll (San Antonio, Texas) Boothill Graveyard became Tombstone’s final resting place in 1878 and lasted until 1884 when the new cemetery...
Wyatt Earp at 30
Screenwriter Dan Gordon reveals the real story behind the making of the blockbuster biopic. When it comes to the events in Tombstone on October 26, 1881, if any question is more open to debate than whether the Earps or the Clantons were the villains, it is the...
On the Trail to Bloody Newton
Adventure awaits the traveler on great cattle drive routes from Texas to Kansas. Among Kansas cattle towns, 1871 is probably best remembered for Wild Bill Hickok’s gunfight with Phil Coe in Abilene. But there was another violent shootout that year that’s often...
True West July/August 2025
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