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Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

It took a city kid to begin saving America’s wild places
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

The uncertain story of Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark’s “pilot” west
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Oliver Loving was made famous by a partner and a book
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Was Zorro real or just a figment of Hollywood’s imagination
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Dora DuFran – Deadwood’s most progressive madam
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Did Butch Cassidy die in Bolivia or Spokane? Good question.
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

The Earps got all the press. What about the guys they shot?
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

The earth shifted for Native Americans at Medicine Lodge
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

William Seward – maligned founder of America’s 49th state
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Frederic Remington, Western artist. Westerner? Not so much.