Born in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1857, Buck Taylor found himself a protégé on Buffalo Bill Cody’s Nebraska ranch; he ended up performing cowboy stunts in the Wild West show arena under the billing “King of the Cowboys.”
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Heather Frey Blanton Buck Taylor? I wonder if this is where Dub's son got his name.
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Emma Kingree Kearns He was a good looking cowboy! I enjoy the history you share.
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Writing Bill Tilghman’s Biography
Zoe Agnes Stratton was a 22-year-old school teacher when famed lawman Bill Tilghman came-a-courtin’.
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Dan Peel Sr. Bill Tilghman, one of the three guardsmen of Oklahoma, a real hero.
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The First Frontier
Any book that challenges the idea of frontier, and the traditional idea of the “American Western Frontier,” I am drawn to because I believe it gives us all a greater perspective and context to the understanding of the European settlement…
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Hooker’s Turkeys
There were a number of ways a young man could become a cattleman.
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Mike Webb Gotta love these stories from True West.
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Milbourne Whitt Just don't call him Turkeyman or Chicken...if he has a gun.
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In the early 1900s, Wild West shows gave way to rodeos, giving little girls new role models in early-day cowgirls like (from left) Hazel Padgett, Dorothy Morrell, Dolly Mullins, Vera McGinnis, Alice Braham and Dell Jones, standing next to an unknown cowgirl.
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Doreen Alfonso Florence Hughes Randolph I think is the cowgirl marked unknown
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Doreen Alfonso These ladies just havent been given credit! They were fantastic cowgirls, a lot of them could out do the cowboys! Society at the time looked at them as loose women unless they were married.
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What can you tell me about the town of Fairbank, Arizona?
The railroad arrived in what became Fairbank, Arizona, in 1881, making the town the closest link by rail to Tombstone, which was one of the largest cities in the…
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Rina Flanigan Link still not working frown emoticon
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True West Magazine Apologies for the link, it's fixed
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True West Magazine Apologies for the link, it's fixed
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