Wyeth Sets Record with Hickok Oil
The most famous Poker hand of all time, Aces and Eights, might have won the pot, had the gambler not gotten shot in the back of the head. Given the popular lore surrounding this legendary “Dead Man’s Hand,” held by Wild Bill Hickok, it should be no huge surprise that...
3:10 to Yuma, on Track?
Everybody wants to make a Western. It’s a fact. Few directors of note, if you were to ask them, would say, “I’m not interested in Westerns; I have my heart set on another slasher movie or romantic comedy.” What holds them back is the idea that Westerns don’t do well...
Preservation: James-Younger Gang Returns to Northfield
Back in the 1940s, visitors to the men’s room of a Phillips 66 gas station in Northfield, Minnesota, were greeted by an unusual sight—photos of the James-Younger Gang after the members’ failed raid on the town bank in 1876. The photos included postmortem shots of...
Preservation: James-Younger Gang Returns to Northfield
Back in the 1940s, visitors to the men’s room of a Phillips 66 gas station in Northfield, Minnesota, were greeted by an unusual sight—photos of the James-Younger Gang after the members’ failed raid on the town bank in 1876. The photos included postmortem shots of...
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