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Fred King

Fred King

by | 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...
Sticks and Stones Can Break Your Bank

Sticks and Stones Can Break Your Bank

by | 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,...
A Bullet for Your Troubles

A Bullet for Your Troubles

by | 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...
Roger Clyne

Roger Clyne

by | 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....
Food Poisoning in the Old West

Food Poisoning in the Old West

by | Jul 1, 2008 | Inside History

While watching our favorite Western movie or TV characters eat a sumptuous meal at the local boarding house, café or sitting around the old campfire, we almost never see them become ill, throw up or run to the privy within hours or a day or so after eating that rare...