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Duke’s Life Lessons Anyone familiar with John Wayne films knows that the Duke has a few tried-and-true ways of dealing with the situations life (or the director) hands him. Call it the “Wayne Way,” as author Douglas Brode does in his 2014 book John Wayne’s Way: Life Lessons From the Duke. Noting that Wayne’s onscreen …
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A Tale of Three Western CitiesWichita, Dodge City and Leadville employed a variety of novel tactics to keep gun-toting riffraff from disturbing the peace…sometimes the tactics actually worked. When Sam Botts, a… Read MoreGhost Towns: Animas Forks, ColoradoProspectors first discovered silver in 1873 and settled where several streams met to form the Animas River, 12 miles northeast of present-day Silverton, in Colorado’s San Juan Coun… Read MoreDynamite Stage Debut for a Train Robber’s DaughterEva Evans had just buried her thieving fiancé, and her one-armed father was in jail waiting trial, when she performed in a blood-and-thunder melodrama about the two outlaws. On Jul… Read MoreJustice Roy Bean: Justice of the FleeceJudge Roy Bean picked the pockets of everyone who entered his barroom court in west Texas. The legendary saga of Roy Bean began the day he was hanged from a poplar tree in Californ… Read MoreThe Long Arms of the LawThe West was wild, but plenty of public and private law agencies tried to tame it. Federal Marshals Town marshals and deputies are not to be confused with their federal namesakes. … Read More
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