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- ‘Float gold’ could make anyone rich or a pauper
- ‘Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes’ — Get a copy of this book
- 1830s brought disease, death to Plains Indians
- A cowboy shirt topped list of things I wanted as a kid
- Add Old West fun to your home with Western signs, furnishings
- Alaska’s modern day gold rush very different from Klondike gold of days long gone
- American story started well before Christopher Columbus
- Anyone know origins of name ‘Fair Weather Christian’ cartridge belts?
- Barbed wire brought major changes to the Old West
- Billy the Kid washing dishes? Different image for famous desperado
- Black Bart, Rattlesnake Dick made life hard for Wells Fargo
- Blizzards in Old West days
- Book looks at Westward settlement through women’s eyes
- Book offers treasure trove of stories about Colorado’s gold, silver rushes
- Brown’s steam wagon sought to conquer 1860s Plains freight routes
- Care to try your hand at panning or prospecting for gold?
- Celebrating Christmas in the Old West
- Christmas in the Old West brought joy, comfort amid hardships
- Civil War currency from both sides was distrusted in the Old West
- Civil War not especially civil, but what else would we call it?
- Combine love of Old West with modern Google Maps for fun, information
- Conestogas moved country westward on big wheels
- Cow chips and drought — enjoying ‘good old days’ in Nebraska
- Cowboy spurs were both practical, dressy
- Cowboy’s bedroll was much more than a sleeping bag
- Cowboys knew who the real boss was on trail drives: the cook
- Crazy Bob Womack launched Cripple Creek gold strike but died in poverty
- Did Buffalo Bill Cody and Wyatt Earp ever meet?
- Did horsebox or horse trailer play role in West?
- Dodge City War ends with no shots being fired
- Dude ranches now add swimming pools to Old West experience
- Economic downturn? Don’t ‘Panic’ — take a closer look at U.S. history
- Emergency food, heat supplies cowboys would be proud to use!
- Enjoy Denver Public Library’s Western History Collection
- Entertainers advanced westward with settlements and towns
- Esther Morris tea party shaped Wyoming and U.S. history
- Ever wonder why Abe Lincoln wore such baggy pants?
- Excellent TV episode puts Buffalo Bill Cody in perspective
- Facts you probably didn’t know about Wyatt Earp
- Find great deals on cowboy hats at Amazon.com
- Follow-up on that ‘Fair Weather Christian’ cartridge belt
- French mining engineer writes of Western travels in 1867
- Get Henry M. Stanley’s account of his 1867 trip across the Plains
- Ghost towns of America abound throughout the West
- Gold led settlers to Boise; irrigation farming kept them there
- Gold Rush came slowly in early Colorado
- Grass played major role in shaping life, language of the Plains
- Great American Desert label shaped American expansion for decades
- Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 launched decades of Indian Wars
- Hard times of 1830s launched first wagon trains westward
- Harsh winter brings memories of Grandma’s kerosene lamp
- Have fun with famous TV Westerns and Western DVD collectibles
- History of Old West means not just U.S. but Spain, Mexico
- Horse rugs make great gifts for the holidays
- Horses built and shaped life in the Old West
- Horses, gold prospectors altered Great Plains, historian says
- How Buffalo Bill Cody almost saved Sitting Bull’s life
- How did people in the Old West really know what time it was?
- How did settlers identify distinct Indian tribal groups?
- How much is a bit in money?
- How to find the best books about life in the Old West
- If you love the Old West, take a look at another very useful site
- If you love Western fiction here’s a site that reviews Westerns
- Indian Pidgin English shaped the Old West
- Irish entrepreneur brought education to early Colorado
- It was impossible not to love and enjoy ‘The Lone Ranger’
- James Arness, iconic Western actor of Gunsmoke fame, dies at 88
- Kerosene lamp: Old West technology remains reliable today
- Lakota are proud people; honored to have known some of them
- Learn from joke about old prospector and young gunslinger
- Little gun had amazing impact on history of westward expansion
- Little Sure Shot Annie Oakley first true sweetheart of rodeo
- Log cabins for sale: Get your own piece of the Old West
- Longhorn cattle added danger, source of meat to life in the Old West
- Many Southwest tribal groups descended from Anasazi cliff dwellers
- Mark Twain’s delightful link to Old West told in ‘Roughing It’
- Mining claims lay at the heart of prospectors’ dreams, schemes
- Native American cultures, alliances were always diverse
- Nellie Cashman’s generosity brightened gold mining camps
- Not so long ago, people on the more remote Plains still lived in sod houses
- Old Hoppy, Mrs. Hoppy wish you Merry Christmas!
- Old West series from Time-Life proves to be invaluable resource
- Old West tombstones with V.C. carved on them conveyed somber message
- One of great captains in the Old West was Spaniard Juan Bautista de Anza
- One of my favorite books about the Old West
- One of the fun ‘Westernisms’: Let’s storm the puncheons
- One of western history’s best — get Robert Utley’s books
- One woman found creative profits in Old West mining camp
- Order rodeo gear — then thank Buffalo Bill for it
- Oregon Trail carried hundreds of thousands into new lives
- Our adventures on the Pony Express Trail were great fun
- Passion for the Old West — here are some sites
- Pony Express adventure began at Patee House Hotel
- Power outages remind us of pioneer ‘lighting’ in the Old West
- Powering those wagons westward — mules or oxen, which were considered best wagon power?
- Prairie Traveler handbook led adventurers across continent
- Prospectors needed grub, they looked for grubstakers
- Railroads brought people, but fences settled Great Plains region
- Real life in the American Old West: Join me on the journey
- Remembering four winters on the Rosebud Reservation — Brrrrrrrrrr!!
- Robert B. Parker: Not a bad Western writer for a crime novelist
- Sheriff or marshal – How lawmen fit together in the Old West
- Soapy Smith added flair to Denver’s gambling scene in 1880s
- There really was a Long Branch in Dodge City, but no Miss Kitty
- Title of oldest newspaper in the West goes to …
- To have a foe ‘Green River’ you was not good in the Old West
- Today’s horse riding boots differ greatly from Old West boot
- Toughest Idaho lawman may have been Rube Robbins
- Truth about gunfighters: It was hard to tell good guys from bad guys
- Truth about Wyatt Earp? We probably can never know it
- Vigilantes became the law in 1863-64 Montana
- Wages of sin paid well for early-1880s Seattle
- Was Jedediah Smith greatest of the Mountain Men?
- Well assembled bedroll helps you when traveling light
- Western belt buckles blend utility, show
- Western books you need: Buy David Dary’s ‘Cowboy Culture’
- Western writers of note: Love him or not, Louis L’Amour was a force of nature
- Western writers of note: Richard S. Wheeler — no one does it better
- Westernisms or ‘cowboy talk’ enriched language of Old West
- Westward Ho! Would that be westward expansion or conquest?
- Westward rush of railroads advanced ‘hell on wheels’
- What do you call the guys with the pistols — gunman?
- Where and when did ‘the West’ really begin in America?
- Which term to use — Indians or Native Americans?
- Why does Billy the Kid generate such fascination, passionate feeling?
- Women prospectors were few in the gold fields, but they were there
- Wonder why American traffic passes on the right? Blame it on Conestoga
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