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Aug 12, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Johnny Boggs
Art of the American West from old favorites like Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell to today’s men and women still attracts fans. Museums and galleries proved that during the past year with a wide range of artists new and old.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Johnny Boggs
Adventure awaits the traveler on great cattle drive routes from Texas to Kansas. Among Kansas cattle towns, 1871 is probably best remembered for Wild Bill Hickok’s gunfight with Phil Coe in Abilene. But there was another violent shootout that year that’s often overlooked, even though it was bloodier than the one in Abilene later that year.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
truewestmagazine.com | Johnny Boggs
Art of the American West from old favorites like Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell to today’s men and women still attracts fans. Museums and galleries proved that during the past year with a wide range of artists new and old.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
einnews.com | Johnny Boggs
Longmire author Craig Johnson, documentarian Dayton Duncan among winners TUCSON, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES, March 9, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Bestselling novelist Craig Johnson and Dayton Duncan, documentarian Ken Burns’s longtime scriptwriter, are among this year’s Spur Award winners from Western Writers of America.
Winners and finalists were announced Saturday, March 9, at the Tucson Festival of Books.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
historynet.com | Austin Stahl |Johnny Boggs
Picture the colorfully costumed members of the Western quartet Riders in the Sky, and you may catch yourself humming the melody of “Woody’s Roundup,” from the 1999 Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2. But there’s far more to the Grammy-winning band and its founder, Douglas “Ranger Doug” Green.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
cowboysindians.com | Johnny Boggs |Caroline Cabe
“Football had Joe Namath, boxing had Muhammad Ali, and rodeo had Larry Mahan,” Bobby Steiner, the 1973 world champion bull rider who competed against Mahan from 1968 to 1973, told The New York Times. “I don’t know that anybody will ever know what ‘it’ is, but he had ‘it.’”“It” was six all-around rodeo world championships, including five consecutive from 1966 to 1970, and bull-riding world titles in 1965 and 1967.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
l8r.it | Johnny Boggs
Sherman, Texas, native S.H. Woods was 16 years old when he was “second boss—the horse rustler”—on a cattle drive in 1881. Although the drive had started along the Chisholm Trail in the Chickasaw Nation, the herd had moved onto the Western Trail, and Dodge City, Kansas, was just eight or 10 miles ahead when a nighttime storm blew in.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
historynet.com | Johnny Boggs
Thirty-two-year-old Cyrus Walker isn’t your typical Western artist. For one thing, he draws his inspiration from the classic comic books of the 1940s and ’50s. For another, he was born and raised in small-town Vermont—“Nothing but dairy cows and green mountains,” he recalls.
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
truewestmagazine.com | Johnny Boggs
In the 19th century, art of the American Indian was usually viewed through the canvas and brush of White Americans. Think George Catlin, the Pennsylvania-born lawyer turned self-taught painter whose trips West produced some 500 portraits, landscapes and other depictions, not to mention artifacts, that he eventually showed in America and Europe. Or Frederic Remington’s Sioux Chief or Captured, both part of the Sid Richardson Museum’s permanent collection in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
historynet.com | Johnny Boggs
Growing up as the son of a history teacher in western Maryland, near Fort Frederick and Antietam National Battlefield, Danny Michael took a natural interest in history. But it was during an internship at the Frazier History Museum, in Louisville, Ken.
