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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...
Modern Cowboys

Modern Cowboys

by | Jun 30, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

“Sometimes you wonder why they all bunch up into cities, when there’s all of this,” observes Ron Schaefer, head cowboy at Rancho de la Osa, as we look out over miles of high desert and the small twin border towns of Sasabe, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. We had raced on...
Close-Ups on the Outcasts

Close-Ups on the Outcasts

by | Jun 23, 2008 | Western Movies

Although director Arthur Penn made only three Westerns, his ranking is secure as one of the genre’s greatest interpreters. Actually, Penn’s first feature film was a Western. Penn cast newcomer Paul Newman as Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun (1958), a misnomered...