John Slaughter – Part 1
John Horton Slaughter typified the 19th century rawhide-tough breed who settled and tamed the wild Southwest border country. He was born in 1841 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana and brought as an infant to Texas. His father, Ben, was a cattleman engaged in rounding up wild...
Walter Hill Returns
The award-winning Hollywood icon saddles back up for Dead for a Dollar, a new Western. Having not directed a Western since 2006’s Broken Trail, Walter Hill is happy to be back in the saddle again. “Oh, it’s very good. I like making Westerns. I think I’ve...
One Ranger, One Riot
Ten Texas Rangers who never stood down Now riding into their third century, one of the nation’s oldest law enforcement agencies carries a double-barreled brand known worldwide—Texas Rangers. In August 1823, in a settler’s cabin on the Colorado River in present...
The Bear Facts on the History of Christopher Creek
I’ll never forget sitting next to my mother at my father’s funeral. Dad was a carefree cowboy when he met my mother, a sixteen-year-old Irish girl living on a farm south of Tempe. Times were tough during those Depression years and when I was about six he sold the cows...
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