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True West Magazine If you love Westerns and classic gunfight in the street face offs, you can thank one guy: Wild Bill Hickock, the first gunfighter and the founder of the feast. All the gunfights featured in countless Westerns over the past 12 decades originated with one fight and one man. Bob Boze Bell will break it down, how this one seminal event featuring this one classic frontiersman became the foundation of the Western movie staple that continues to resonate with fans around the world. Not only was Wild Bill the first gunfighter, he was the first celebrity who set the style that has become known as the Western Man in fact and fiction. ....
True West Magazine The Pella Historical Society starts at home. Certainly, Wyatt Earp didn’t play cowboys and Indians growing up in Pella, Iowa. We know because it would be decades before cowboys were glorified enough for little boys to imitate, and Indians were still too real and seen as too dangerous. But this is about all that’s certain for the years when Wyatt was a lad. The final exhibition room of the Wyatt Earp Experience allows visitors to reflect on who they think Wyatt Earp really was in life and legend. All Images Courtesy Pella Historical Society and Museums Unless Otherwise Noted ....
True West Magazine “Doc Holliday is ten feet tall and weighs a ton.”
J.J. Webb at the Old Town Las Vegas Jail, 1880 This photo first came to our attention when it appeared in Frederick Nolan’s book The West of Billy the Kid. Nolan published it, in part, because the Kid spent time in this jail in December 1880, when Pat Garrett escorted him and members of his gang to Santa Fe. Recently some historians have speculated that Holliday is in the photograph, to the right of Webb (in shackles). True West Archives The first time we saw this historical group photo taken in Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, was in 1998 in Frederick Nolan’s book ....