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Showing posts with label cowboys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cowboys. Show all posts
Friday, January 31, 2014

Wild West Photo Friday: The Chuck Wagon

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Home on the range? When you're on a cattle drive and your bed is a blanket and your pillow is your saddle, then the closest thing to h...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

How Wild West fistfights really went down

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Movies and comics have taught us that fistfights in the Wild West were simple punch-ups where the good guy almost always won (unless vastl...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

My book on Tombstone is out now!

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I've just received the author's copies for my latest book, Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82 ...
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Friday, May 3, 2013

Wild West Photo Friday: A Mexican Caballero in San Antonio

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Now that the A to Z Challenge is over, I can get back to my regular Photo Friday series, whether it's Civil War, Wild West, or Militar...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Tom Mix: An Early Western Superstar

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Last week I blogged about William S. Hart , the first Western movie star. Hart got the ball rolling and soon Westerns were a favorite genr...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Django Unchained: How Historically Accurate is Tarantino's Latest Historical Action Flick?

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The A to Z blogfest continues, and today is the letter J, so I'll be talking about the movie everyone's been talking about-- Djan...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

William S. Hart: the first Western film star

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I've always been a fan of silent films. Like most people, I loved the old Chaplin and Keaton slapstick shorts as a kid. Unlike most pe...
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Wild West Photo Friday: Four Forgotten Cowboys

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Many of the historic photos that have come down to us lack information. Looking at these two images, I have to wonder--who were they? Wher...
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