Old West 3/5

April Magazine - 1

Pecans were among the many nuts that grew naturally and were plentiful, thus making nuts free treats in many frontier locales. Ladies...

Though movies and television would like us to believe otherwise, it was very rare when gunfights occurred with the two gunfighters...

First produced in late 1876, Sharps’s M-1877—the so-called “English Model”—is among the rarest of Sharps rifles and is considered the...

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Gunfight in the street.The terms "gunfighter" or "gunslinger," as they are most often called today, are actually more modern words...

In the mid 19th Century the Americancowboy has occupied a place sufficiently important to entitle him to a considerable share of public...

SKINNY/FAT He is so thin he could take a bath in a shotgun barrel. If he closed one eye he'd look like a needle. He is so fat, you'd...

MEAN/ANGRY He was mad enough to swallow a horn-toad backwards. He's so mean he'd steal a fly from a blind spider. He was so mean, he'd...

The wild and lawless period in the West lasted for about 70 years, with the first shooting incident by a person who could be considered a...

Having reputation was a curse and a blessing at the same time. Attracted the fame seekers. This was inevitable. But sometimes it...

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