by Russ Wood | Aug 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation
A barrel of whiskey kick-started this frontier burg. The first business that opened on the site of Dodge City was George M. Hoover’s and John McDonald’s saloon built of sod and boards. The partners opened their saloon on June 17, 1872, and sold “red eye” whiskey for...
by Fred King | Jul 1, 2008 | True Westerners
The most expensive boots ever were a pair we made out of American Alligator, sporting gold leaf inlays with diamonds and rubies and going for $45K. I don’t think you’d want to rustle any cattle in those babies. Lucchese lasted 125 years thanks to the appreciation and...
by Wes Cowan | Jul 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture
The American West has its myths, but it is also steeped with genuine characters and events which we can identify with, even more than 200 years later. When you hold a material object linked to that history, or view a photograph that captured a historical moment,...
by Bob Boze Bell | Jul 1, 2008 | Inside History
October 03, 1900 It’s cold, just after dawn in Colorado’s Brown’s Park area when Isom Dart comes out of his cabin, dressed heavy with long underwear, a couple of shirts and a jacket. That may protect him from the elements—but it won’t stop a bullet. Dart is holed up...
by Roger Clyne | Jul 1, 2008 | True Westerners
Our heroes and villains roam the borderlands, and tequila and gunpowder figure prominently in our lyrical tales. When we employ horns, they’re usually echoing some Sonoran sound, and many a lead guitar hook sounds like it fell out of a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western....