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Kansas’s Highways of History

Kansas’s Highways of History

by | Mar 26, 2019 | Features & Gunfights

America’s West, in the early 1800s, ended at the Missouri River. Men knew there was another West—farther west—but venturing there proved problematic. In 1821, when Mexico shook off Spanish rule, the gate to commercial trade was unlocked. In September 1821, Capt....
Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner

by | Mar 25, 2019 | Features & Gunfights

Back in 1989, when Life Magazine asked Hollywood legends like James Stewart, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland to pick their favorite young stars of the day, Joel McCrea selected Kevin Costner.  He described the Field of Dreams star as “a little Clark Gable, a little...
The Legendary Maney Gault

The Legendary Maney Gault

by | Mar 22, 2019 | Features & Gunfights

White Rabbit On April 1, 1934, 6’2” Frank Hamer was sitting, cramped, in his tiny Ford V-8 automobile in a lonely riverside migrant camp near the West Dallas viaduct, eating from a can of sardines and celebrating Easter Sunday alone. Or maybe he had driven home to...
Outfoxing a Rustler

Outfoxing a Rustler

by | Mar 18, 2019 | True West Blog

Next to fluctuating markets and drought the biggest concern facing cattlemen then and now was rustling. It was tough to get a conviction, you practically had to catch a rustler in the act of altering a brand. Even then the thief might convince a jury of his peers it...
The Heart of Willcox

The Heart of Willcox

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Departments, Old West Saviors

Rex Allen said his heart would always belong to his hometown of Willcox, Arizona, and he wasn’t kidding. A replica of a human heart was included in a larger-than-life statue of the “favorite son”—and when Allen died in 1999, his ashes were spread around the monument...