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Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Triburicio Vasquez was the Casanova of California bandits
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Edward Curtis called “Shadow Catcher” by Native nations
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Rocky Mountain Locust: A plague of Biblical proportions
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Lewis & Clark: The hunt for missing private, Moses B. Reed
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

America’s favorite movie horse was born on the 4th of July
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Uncategorized, Venture West

Nat Oliphant was lynched and went missing – in that order
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Sandoz: Dozens of rejection slips and two big Hollywood movies
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Henry Starr -a bad boy who made it into the movies
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Lewis and Clark finally at the Pacific after a year and a half trek
Time Before Now, Trail Dust, Venture West

Wild Bunch girlfriend, Laura Bullion, not your average outlaw