With his monumental bronze The Birthplace of the Legend, Charlie Norton has re-created Bill Cody’s legendary buffalo-hunting contest in Oakley, Kansas.
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Interview: Lt. Gen. Ron Christmas / Semper Fi
Vietnam magazine spoke with Lt. Gen. Christmas at his beloved Marine Corps museum about his life in Vietnam and as a Marine.
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Movie Review: Cowboys & Aliens
Jon Favreau’s film Cowboys & Aliens leans heavy on special effects but remains an entertaining nod to the traditional Western.
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Book Review: Wanton West / Madams, Money, Murder and the Wild Women of Montana’s Frontier
In Wanton West author Lael Morgan looks at the seedy side of life on the Montana frontier, that of Old West prostitutes.
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Book Review: Jeans of the Old West, by Michael Allen Harris
Author Michael Allen Harris steps into the history of jeans, farther back even than the very first pair of Levi Strauss’ denims in the 1870s.
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Book Review: The Lakotas and the Black Hills, by Jeffrey Ostler
In his book The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground, author Jeffrey Ostler looks at the Lakota Sioux struggle to retain and then regain the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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Book Review: Captain John R. Hughes & Rawhide Ranger
Chuck Parsons’ book Captain John R. Hughes and Bob Alexander’s book Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten pay tribute to two of the celebrated cadre of Texas Rangers who tamed the Old West.
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Daily Quiz for October 6, 2011
This is credited with being the first animated cartoon done completely in color.
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Book Review: Historic Photos of Heroes of the Old West, by Mike Cox, and Historic Photos of Outlaws of the Old West, by Larry Johnson
Mike Cox honors the heroes of the Old West and Larry Johnson the outlaws of the Old West in these two entries from Turner Publishing’s Historic Photos series.