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Deadwood Déjà Vu After a 13-year hiatus, the cast and crew re-team to finish the tale.
“It’s Doc Cochran’s office—I’m sure of it! And there’s the Bella Union!” Over a decade after HBO’s Deadwood had le…
Reality Cowboy Stars You’ll find honest, rugged ranch life as Booger, Cody and Bubba saddle up for a third season.
This April 26, Chris “Booger” Brown, Cody Harris and Bubba Thompson saddle up for their third season of INSP’s The Cowbo…
How Many Men did Marshal Dillon Kill in the Gunsmoke Series?
How many men did Marshal Dillon kill in the Gunsmoke series? Larry Shuler Paige, Texas During the 20-year span of CBS’s …
John Ford and Harry Goulding Harry Goulding, proprietor of Goulding’s trading post on the Arizona-Utah border had a brilliant idea to help the economy.
The year was 1938 and the Navajo were in the deep depths of the Great Depression. Harry Goulding, proprietor of Gouldin…
Gunsmoke Survived the Chopping Block
In 1967, after 12 years on the air, Gunsmoke was slated to be cancelled. Ratings had been dropping for some time and CBS…
True Grit On Screen
True Grit, the 1968 Charles Portis novel about a dissolute deputy U.S. marshal and a precocious teenage girl, was made i…
Douglas Fowley
So who played Doc Holliday most often on TV or in movies? Probably character actor Douglas Fowley, who was cast as the …
The Rightful Writer
Stuart Lake is best known for writing the bio Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. After it was published in 1931, Lake spent m…