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Wild West DVD Review: How the West Was Won

by Amy Chan3/28/2018

How the West Was Won three-disc special,Warner Home Video, 2008, 164 minutes, $29.98. Warner […]

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Charley Nebo: The Forrest Gump of the Old West

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Charley Nebo had a knack for showing up where the action was—driving Longhorns for […]

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Abraham Lincoln stood atop a hill outside Council Bluffs, Iowa, looking west. The broad […]

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The Man Who Arrested Doc Holliday

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Doc Holliday’s reputation was forged in blood in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, but his legend […]

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Squaring Custer’s Triangle

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The love between George and Libbie Custer is the stuff of legend on the Plains, but so is the romance between George and a captivating Cheyenne woman named Monahsetah.

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Wild West Review: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and El Dorado

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and El Dorado  2009, Paramount Centennial Collection, two […]

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Behind the Barricade: How diligent research revealed the identity of the Devil’s Den ‘sharpshooter’

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A Confederate soldier, his youthful face turned toward the viewer, lies behind a stone wall built between two boulders in Gettysburg’s notorious Devil’s Den.

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John Wesley Powell’s Colorado River Exploring Expedition completed its rapids-defying Grand Canyon passage 140 […]

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The Search for Jessie Evans

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The noted outlaw and Lincoln County War player seemingly rode off the pages of […]

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