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Trail Dust – a daily almanac of western history and lore, fact and fiction about America’s frontier and where to travel to find it..

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    John Wesley Hardin, a holy terror named for churchman

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    Mary Schwandt was 13 when purchased for a pony

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    Fess Parker, father of the coon skin cap and the mini-series

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    Keeping track of “Doc” Holliday was like pulling teeth

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    Annie Oakley was Buffalo Bill’s “Little Sure Shot”

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    Comstock Lode – so much silver, so little time

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    “Crash” Corrigan, was famous as a movie landlord

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    Landmark volcano helped a Missouri man avoid prison

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    The first of a lot of bad days for the Donner Party

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    Hoot Gibson – runaway, movie star, rich guy, poor guy

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