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83Best Cowboy Movies Ever Made
I was just reading the Answers section of Hubpages, and I saw a question titled "Best cowboy movies of all time". So I began to answer it, when I realised that hey I could write a hub about it, so here I am. Now the title is misleadig, because...
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74History Files: The Gunfight At the OK Corral: Tombstone AZ October 26, 1881
On October 26, 1881 in the town of Tombstone Arizona. Perhaps one of the most iconic events of the Wild West took place. The Gunfight at the OK Coral. But the gight didn't really take place at the Coral but at an empty lot a few blocks away. Myth or reality it is a story made heroic by the West itself.
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74A PROGRESSIVE'S VIEW OF GUN CONTROL
About 20 years ago, I lived in a rather crime infested area of Denver just outside downtown. I was burglarized and had a transistorized television and radio stolen during broad daylight while I was away at work. In the immediate aftermath, I felt...
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82The Deadly Bird Cage Theatre Tombstone Arizona
The Bird Cage Theatre located in Tombstone Arizona, (The Town too Tough to Die) of the Wyatt Earp fame. Tombstone already had an opera house, but the Bird Cage Theatre was intended to be part saloon, part brothel, part gambling hall, and while these other activities were taking place, some of the finest vaudville acts took place on the stage. Wyatt supposedly fell in love with Sadie Jo Marcus after seeing her perform, and Doc Holiday dealt faro there. The Bird Cage faded after an eight year boo
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7720 Great Western Television Shows
Why did the Western rule television for so long? Here are 20 great explanations.
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76A Legacy Remembered
This is a personal reflection about my father, who was born the day before Wyatt Earp died. Evidently the world could only handle one hard-nosed tough-guy at time.
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74Airsofters Unite for a Arisoft Cowboy Shooting Revival + A Cowboy Shooter Airsoft Kit
Gunlsinger; not just a job, but a way of life. As a child growing up in North Dakota I remember how I got told told all the old stories of cowboys and outlaws, sheriffs, and Indians. Those stories still got told as if they had happened...
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77Tombstone's Famous Bird Cage Theater
The famous Bird Cage Theatre opened December 25, 1881 by William “Billy” Hutchinson and his wife Lottie during the height of Tombstone’s silver boom. And over the following eight years it never closed. The popular night spot was a...
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81A Haunted Tour of Tucson Arizona
Ghosts, goblins and other spirits have always been a part of the Halloween tradition since the time the ancient Celts in Ireland started the Halloween tradition with the belief that Halloween was an evening on which the wall between the world of the...
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82The Boxing Priest of Old Tombstone Arizona
Endicott Peabody came to Tombstone in the Arizona Territory as a young Episcopal priest in 1882. The young priest kept a diary about his experiences trying to build the St. Paul's Episcopal church. The diary mentions the Earps fued with the Cowboys, the troubles of the miners and his quest to visit the citizens of the town to build the church. It was said he used his boxing skills to win money to build St. Paul's church. The church is still operating today and is said to be the oldest protesta
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