Shooting Back

Shooting Back

Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. 1883 and Yellowstone Inspiration?  It would appear that Grant County’s murderous cattle baron, Tom Lyons (above), was the original...
Katy Haber

Katy Haber

Sam Peckinpah’s Girl Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday, and…   Film is the most collaborative of arts: no one makes a movie alone. So, how important might an assistant be to an auteur like Sam Peckinpah? A woman who was constantly by his side for eight movies in...
The Wildest Town in Indian Territory

The Wildest Town in Indian Territory

Muskogee, Oklahoma’s early years as a frontier outpost were violent, dangerous and unpredictable. Welcome to Muskogee, the rip-roaring and most dangerous locale west of the Mississippi River. Over the years I have read about Deadwood, Dodge City, El Paso, Las Vegas,...