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A taste of the Old West
Ukiah :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
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PDT Event featuring single-action shooters returns to Ukiah after more than a decade Ukiah Daily Journal Being a cowboy ain't cheap these days, even if you only play one on the weekends...A six-shooter will likely cost you several hundred dollars,
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Gypsy jazz trio headlines Ramona fest
San Diego :: TX :: USA | 20 days ago
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Well, her band's collection of Gypsy jazz tunes and American standards comes out May 28...Irving Berlin wrote this particular If I Had You nearly 100 years ago...But then, James lives in Austin, Texas, and you know what Austin folks proclaim about
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Pioneertown relives a West that never was
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Time elongates and lassos your ambition, rustles it down in the dusty street and leaves you spent and enervated in the post- meridian quiet. Not much to do, Grampz says, except to roll another cigarette and sit on the porch between his two "best
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America's forgotten black cowboys
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 2 months ago
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Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning Western, Django Unchained, is one of relatively few Hollywood films depicting a black cowboy. In reality there were many, some of whose stories were borrowed for films...But the Hollywood portrayal of the Wild West
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Author Chris Enss' Grass Valley home keeps her in the Old West
Dodge City :: KS :: USA | 4 months ago
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Appropriately, the road to writer Chris Enss' home on the outskirts of Grass Valley takes a visitor along the Overland Emigrant Trail, past Ponderosa Pines Way and Lone Star Road, and on two streets named after rattlesnakes. Parked in the three-car
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WOTR: The Wild and not so gun-loving West
Silverton :: OR :: USA | 4 months ago
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On summer evenings in the former mining town of Silverton, the staccato sound of gunshots used to echo through otherwise quiet streets. A cast of stereotypical Old West characters riddled one another with bullets, as the legendary gunfighters did
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The wild and not so gun-loving West
Silverton :: OR :: USA | 4 months ago
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Jonathan Thompson Writers on the Range On summer evenings in the former mining town of Silverton, the staccato sound of gunshots used to echo through otherwise quiet streets. A cast of stereotypical Old West characters riddled one another with
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World's fastest man with a gun also exploded myths about the Old West
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | 4 months ago
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BOB Munden, who has died aged 70, was listed in Guinness World Records as "The Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived". One journalist reckoned that if Munden had been at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26, 1881, the gunfight would
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Floridian Discovers Old West Gunfighter's True Story Memoir
Jim Huebner, a city slicker living in Ft. Lauderdale Florida, but a cowboy at heart discovered the memoir of a real character from the Old West. A bizarre series of events led him to stumble across a long forgotten, extremely rare, memoir by an
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Kansan ready to show world the beauty of state, horsemanship
Sun City :: AZ :: USA | 8 months ago
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As he gallops over the horizon in the glorious, rugged Gyp Hills of Kansas, Kerry Kuhn looks every bit like the iconic Westerner: Hat...Channel 404 on Dish Network, the 37-year-old wants to show the world the Old West legacy that began in Kansas and
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