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• Wild West Magazine

  Packing Iron in the Real Old West Differed From the Way It...

  Gun leather on the frontier was not designed for fast shooting. For well over a century now a caricature of a cowboy dressed in batwing or woolly chaps, boots, Stetson and holstered six-gun slung low on the hip has been the stereotypical,...

• Wild West Magazine

  Fast Draw, Inspired by 1950s TV Westerns, Helped Trigger Cowboy Action Shooting

  Shooters use Colts and other single-action originals, copies and clones. From across the town square in Springfield, Missouri, James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok and Davis Tutt chose to settle an argument that had begun the previous night...

• AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE

  

  Founding Father Firepower: Metal Intended for Statues of George Washington Was Used...

  That is the man himself,” the Marquis de Lafayette said as he viewed French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon’s statue of George Washington in 1824. “I can almost realize he is going to move.” The Commonwealth of Virginia had...