Augusta Tabor’s life with husband Horace wasn’t easy. They struggled from the 1850s through early 1880s, trying to make their fortune. Augusta was...
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The Portrayals of Wyatt Earp
According to the film website IMDb, Wyatt Earp has been portrayed at least 67 times in Westerns, TV shows, docudramas and more. Bert Lindley was...
The Rightful Writer
Stuart Lake is best known for writing the bio Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. After it was published in 1931, Lake spent much of his life in...
John Ford- True to Hollywood
Legendary director John Ford considered himself a student of history—especially Old West history. And he often told people how Wyatt Earp gave him...
The Duke and Dollor
John Wayne may or may not have liked horses, but he did have a favorite in his later years. The sorrel gelding was called Dollor—no “a”--and it was...
Schemer, Lou Blonger
Lou Blonger was a man of many hats. He was a miner, a saloon and bawdy house owner, a gambler, a lawman (for a very brief time). And with his...
A Bloody Ranger Battle
The Conner family had been running roughshod in east Texas for several years when Texas Rangers went after them. In late March 1887, the two groups...
Friends in Film
John Wayne had a number of actors that he liked working with (and made sure that they had plenty of film opportunities). Hank Worden was toward the...
A Different Blazing Saddles?
John Wayne almost made an appearance in the comedy Western, Blazing Saddles. Director Mel Brooks was eating lunch in the Warner Bros. commissary one...
Gene Wilder
The late Gene Wilder wasn’t the original Waco Kid in the comedy “Blazing Saddles.” Veteran actor Gig Young got the role of the drunken gunfighter....
Rowdy Joe vs. William Red Beard
Old West gunfights occasionally inflicted collateral damage. That was the case in October 1873 when rival saloon owners “Rowdy Joe” Lowe (pictured)...
The Tale That Won’t Die
It’s been called the West’s bloodiest gunfight. Hugh Anderson and Arthur McCluskie met in the middle of the main street in Medicine Lodge, Indian...