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Cather’s love-hate relationship with the land she treasured
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He survived the frontier, died on the way to dinner
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Buffalo Bill was writer Ned Buntline’s most enduring creation
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Tom Horn: scout, soldier, sometime hero, full-time assassin
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Character actor Elam, film’s original “one-eyed Jack”
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Captive German sisters found in abandoned Cheyenne camp
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“Soapy” Smith, the West’s worst con man turned into Robin Hood
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“Lost Dutchman’s Mine” – a century later still not been found
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How “fast draw” Wild Bill Longley got portrayed as a hero
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The story of Dora Hand, cowboy Spike and Mayor “Dog” Kelley