Justice Served

Justice Served

Ten U.S. Marshals and Deputy U.S. Marshals who defined the legendary West All Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell and All Images Courtesy True West Archives Unless Otherwise Noted In this list, I’m providing 10 of U.S. Marshals Service personnel who defined the Old West as...
Journey to Lone Pine

Journey to Lone Pine

The iconic Western film location is celebrated every year at the internationally famous Lone Pine Film Festival. Among the hundreds of long-running film festivals around the world, The Lone Pine Film Festival (lonepinefilmfestival.org), held in early October, is...
On the Western Trail

On the Western Trail

Pack it up, round ’em up and drive north for an Old West adventure. Sherman, Texas, native S.H. Woods was 16 years old when he was “second boss—the horse rustler”—on a cattle drive in 1881. Although the drive had started along the Chisholm Trail in the Chickasaw...
Ringing the Bell

Ringing the Bell

For the greater good of the state, two visionary women saved a school in Nome, North Dakota.       This is a story about two North Dakota women on a shopping spree—not for school clothes, but for a school.  “We’d already looked at other schools, but...
Bill Miner: The Saga of the Grey Fox

Bill Miner: The Saga of the Grey Fox

Ezra Allen Miner is a conundrum. Some say he was born in Onondaga, Michigan on December 27th, 1846, or maybe he was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Apparently, Miner didn’t like the name Ezra but he never bothered to change it legally, he just decided that henceforth...