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Rowdy Cowboys, Outlaws, and Blood Feud

Rowdy Cowboys, Outlaws, and Blood Feud

by | Feb 24, 2023 | Features & Gunfights

L.R. Millican’s life in Lampasas, Texas, was both lucky and legendary. Lampasas, for a time, was on the edge of a lively frontier in Texas, and much blood spilled as that border exhaled dust and stampeded westward. Rowdy cowboys, outlaws and others shooting up saloons...
Two Rode Together

Two Rode Together

by | Feb 23, 2023 | Features & Gunfights

Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight made history in 1866, and 120 years later Larry McMurtry made them legends. The Goodnight-Loving Trail has inspired songwriters and novelists. Cattleman Charles Goodnight became one of the iconic figures of Texas and the West—and...
Kingman Kin

Kingman Kin

by | Feb 23, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, To the Point

  Here’s a classic film story that involves my hometown, Kingman, the Hotel Beale and my shirttail kin. As the story goes, Buster Keaton was traveling through Kingman in 1924-25 and he stayed at the Hotel Beale. When he went into the bar for a drink, he happened...
Truth Be Known

Truth Be Known

by | Feb 23, 2023 | Uncategorized

“When the ranch is in peace, no other life is more perfect.” —Charles Goodnight “Every civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.” —Nicolas Gomez Davila “No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most...