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History, Heritage and Hospitality

History, Heritage and Hospitality

by | Apr 27, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

Saloons, pubs and hotels played a major role in shaping the West. While saloons generally weren’t the largest buildings in a town, they were the most frequented establishments. Besides being used for the obvious imbibing and sleeping, they were sites of judicial and...
A Belle of Old Fort Sumner

A Belle of Old Fort Sumner

by | Apr 9, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

Walter Noble Burns was onto something. A 56-year-old Chicago journalist, Burns had become intrigued by a long-dead and largely forgotten outlaw named Billy the Kid. He suspected the Kid’s bloody career might make a good story. So, in the summer of 1923, Burns traveled...
Reality Cowboy Stars

Reality Cowboy Stars

by | Apr 5, 2018 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies

This April 26, Chris “Booger” Brown, Cody Harris and Bubba Thompson saddle up for their third season of INSP’s The Cowboy Way—Alabama, the most entertaining and least contrived of “reality shows,” which follows three hard working cowboy ranchers and their families, an...
The Cup Spinning Sequence

The Cup Spinning Sequence

by | Apr 2, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

When then-Director Kevin Jarre first spoke to Val Kilmer about the gun-twirling, cup-spinning scene in 1993’s Tombstone, the actor who played John H. “Doc” Holliday was a bit apprehensive. “I was very concerned that the whole movie would be in trouble if I didn’t beat...
Shine Smith

Shine Smith

by | Mar 31, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

Hugh Dickson “Shine” Smith was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1912 and assigned to a church in Coleman, Texas where he became a “cowboy preacher for four years. He also became savvy in the cattle business. By 1917 he was ministering to the Navajo in northern...