May 22, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Old West

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Movie Review: The Last Stand

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.18.2013 | Entertainment

Sometimes, all you want is a knock-down, guns-blazing approximation of an old-style western, even if it's set in contemporary times. As a modern oater, The Last Stand is shamelessly entertaining.

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Old Hat: Broker's Gin and the Fate of the Bowler

Christian Chensvold | Posted 11.21.2012 | Style

Read More: Cocktails, Old West, Men's Fashion, Bowler Hat, Style News

Summer comes to an official end today, and with it the close of gin-and-tonic season, for as the leaves turn from light to dark, so does our liquor.

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Legendary Outlaw Butch Cassidy's Colt .45 To Be Auctioned

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 09.20.2012 | Crime

A pistol that once belonged to legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy will be auctioned on Sept. 30 and is expected to fetch upwards of $250,000. Maile Pin...

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Koch Buys Himself Life-Size Old West Playhouse

Posted 08.21.2012 | Denver

"Nothing is impossible," so the saying goes, and is apparently a mantra that billionaire William Koch takes to heart. The oil tycoon whose net wor...

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Koch Brother Building His Own Cowboy Town

Slate | Matthew Yglesias | Posted 08.21.2012 | Business

Read More: Bill Koch, Video, Western Memorabilia, Raggeds Wilderness Area, Koch Brothers, Private Town, Bear Ranch, Gunnison County, Slideexpand, President Obama, Old West, Business News

By now everyone knows about the Koch brothers' efforts to spend a fair chunk of their millions on defeating President Obama and reshaping American...

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'Billy The Kid' PBS Film Explores Hispanic Link

AP | By RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 12.12.2011 | Latino Voices

Read More: Pbs, Cultura, Mexican-Americans, New Mexico, Mexicans, Mexico, Documentary, Billy the Kid, Susana Martinez, PBS Documentaries, Bill Richardson, Old West, Latino Voices News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- His mythical exploits and jail escapes made this son of Irish immigrants one of the nation's most famous Old West outlaws. Yet fe...

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Federal Charges For Ex-Felon Wild West Re-enactor In Live Ammo Fight Flub

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 09.26.2011 | Crime

Read More: Hill City, Real Bullets, Cowboys, Federal Court, US Attorneys, South Dakota Black Hills, South Dakota, Dakota Wild Bunch, Live Ammunition, Old West, Crime News

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — An Old West gun battle re-enactor who injured three South Dakota tourists when live ammunition was fired instead of blanks f...

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Tourists At Wild West Show Shot With Live Bullets

AP | CHET BROKAW | Posted 08.27.2011 | Crime

Read More: Old West Show, Live Bullets, South Dakota Crime, Carrol Knutson, Jose Pruneda, John Ellis, Black Hills, Bullets, South Dakota, Blanks, Old West, Wild West Show, Wild West, Crime News

PIERRE, S.D. -- One of the participants in a mock Old West gun battle in South Dakota fired live ammunition instead of using blanks, wounding three to...

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Not A Real Straight Shooter: Tourists Injured At Cowboy Show

AP | Posted 11.15.2011 | Weird News

Read More: Weird South Dakota, Cowboys, Hill City, South Dakota, Old West, Weird News News

HILL CITY, S.D. — An Old West shootout staged as part of a charity fundraiser may have come a little too close to the real thing when three tour...

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Movie Review: True Grit

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

While both the 1969 and the Coens bothers' remake are relatively faithful to the novel, the Coens more closely captures a sense of rough justice, and that even heroes have feet of clay.

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