By David Lauterborn The October 2013 issue of Wild West features stories about Will McLaury of post-gunfight fame in Tombstone, the 1871 Camp Grant Massacre in Arizona Territory, mythologized gunman Clay Allison, the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 and the tall tale of the last major Comanche attack on Fort Worth, Texas.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net
By David Lauterborn In the October issue of Wild West, readers share dispatches about Josephine Earp’s true identity, Edgar Paxson’s painting of Custer’s Last Stand, ill-fated photographer Mark Kellogg’s Little Bighorn assignment and Bighorn survivor Fred Gerard.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net
By Doug Book
“Under no circumstances should people be able to confront others in a hostile manner, end up using deadly force, and escape punishment.” Such is the far from unconventional viewpoint of UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler. But it’s not the doings of actual thugs and lawbreakers that worry the professor. His concern is about people who “take advantage” of Stand Your Ground laws, laws which according to Winkler “unambiguously authorize people to pursue and confront others” and encourage vigilantism.
Of course, the professor is not alone in spreading his deliberately false description of the contents of Stand Your Ground legislation. Three days after the George Zimmerman verdict, AG Eric Holder told members of the Orlando NAACP that “’stand your ground’” statutes can ‘undermine public safety’ and ‘victimize too many who are innocent.’” They are laws that “senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods.” That there is no evidence Stand Your Ground legislation now in force in over 30 states actually brings about the Wild West vigilantism so feared by the Attorney General doesn’t prevent his making the claim that self-defense-minded killers are everywhere poised and ready to strike.
But why is the left so adamantly opposed to legislation that does away with the requirement to retreat first when faced with a potential threat of great harm? (By the way, most Stand Your Ground laws simply do away with the requirement to retreat. They do not grant a new “privilege” to needlessly obliterate an attacker.)
The reason is that liberals recognize the danger inherent in news of an average citizen successfully exercising his right of self defense. Allow the spread of stories in which a victim turns the tables on his attackers, and suddenly, people become skeptical of placing responsibility for their safety and security in the hands of a far off policeman.
And for a left that believes that only the police and other approved, government officials should have the right to carry a gun, it is especially the defensive use of firearms that causes panic. For how can liberals square as many as 2.5 million yearly uses of firearms in self-defense with their agenda of disarming the American public?
The Regime’s current, focused attack against Stand Your Ground legislation should fool no one. For it’s the right of the American people to defend themselves–even with deadly force–that the left considers the real threat to their authority. In Britain, self-defense has become virtually illegal, a crime worthy of prison time. Imagine how envious the likes of Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Chuck Schumer must be of the otherwise hated English politicos. With self-defense a punishable trespass, official members of law enforcement would become the public’s only legal means of protection. And who would be in charge of this, the only legally armed force with official authority to act in our best interest? Liberal mouths would be watering all over DC at the prospect of such power.
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By hnn
One of the world’s largest collections of Wild West memorabilia, including a poker table that belonged to Wyatt Earp and weapons from Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn, is to be auctioned off next week, to help pay down a Pennsylvania city’s burgeoning debts.
A former mayor of Harrisburg, Stephen Reed, amassed the artefacts with a view to displaying them in a museum he wanted to build, in order to draw in history-seeking visitors and help revitalise the fortunes of the economically depressed city. But with Harrisburg’s debts passing $370m, city leaders voted to put the collection under the hammer. The auction represents an attempt to recover $8m in redevelopment funds that Reed spent on about 10,000 items, during a buying spree in western states.
“Every item you’re able to purchase is an investment in our future,” said Linda Thompson, the city’s new mayor, who is a vocal opponent of Reed’s museum project. “These artefacts had been in the city’s archives for a very long time. Here we are at that important moment to see what Harrisburg’s history looks like and the opportunities ahead.”…
Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The following is part one of a five part excerpt from Jason Merkoski’s Burning the Page: The eBook revolution and the future of reading. Merkoski was an early innovator on Amazon’s Kindle team, and his new book discusses how ebooks came to be, as well as where they’re going. This excerpt is about the inside story of the Kindle:
Working at Amazon was like taking a step back in time to Seattle’s pioneer roots, back when Seattle was the gateway to the Yukon gold rush. Working on the Kindle was like living in the Wild West.
For projects that broke new ground, like the Kindle, there didn’t seem to be any law, any sheriff, or any real consequences for making wrong decisions, because nobody knew the right ones. People seemed to wear their six-shooters out in the open, taking potshots at one another while hiding behind Donkey Kong machines. When vice presidents argued in the hallways, trigger fingers twitching, I could almost imagine a tumbleweed blowing between them.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post
By David Lauterborn The June 2013 issue of Wild West features stories about the troopers who fled the fighting at the Little Bighorn, Big Bend frontier photographer W.D. Smithers, common misconceptions about the Indian wars, the rifle-at-the-ready Arizona Rangers and a New Mexican standoff between U.S. cavalrymen and territorial militiamen.
By David Lauterborn In the June issue of Wild West, readers share dispatches about the history of Wild West magazine, old-time baseball in Colorado, the dragoon period of the American West and prolific Western author James D. Horan.
By Michael Venables, Contributor
The complete first season Blue-ray set of Star Trek: Enterprise will hit Earth at warp factor 2.5 on Tuesday. The prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise is the chronological beginning in the universe timeline of the great Star Trek canon. Captain Jonathan Archer leads the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 to fulfill his father, Henry Archer‘s dream of using the warp-powered engine to take humankind on a voyage of discovery to the outer reaches of the universe, proving humankind’s technological ingenuity and self reliance. I was very excited to speak with Scott Bakula about his historic role as Captain Jonathan Archer in the television series, which ran from 2001 to 2005. We chatted about his taking the helm of the Enterprise NX-01 and launching his own voyage of discovery about the world of Star Trek, science fictions fans and his own creative work in the process. …read more
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By Gerald Swick
Wild West magazine covers 1985 – 2013
This is a gallery of Wild West magazine covers for the the past 25 years. Click on a thumbnail to see all the covers from that year.
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The great-grandsons of Wild West character Buffalo Bill Cody reportedly died in a small plane crash in Florida last week.
Kit and Barry Cody and their friend, Rob Krieger, died when the plane they were riding in crashed in the wooded Fort Drum Marsh Conservation Area, west of Vero Beach, Fla., the Cody Enterprise reported.
The Federal Aviation Administration lost contact with the Cessna 310 on Thursday afternoon, and the crash site was discovered Friday about 20 miles west of Vero Beach, Fla.
Authorities haven’t released the names of the victims, but a family member identified them as 65-year-old Rob Krieger — a Florida businessman — and brothers Kit and Barry Cody, ages 63 and 67.
Kit Cody‘s son-in-law, Bryan Edwards, told the newspaper that the three had been “island hopping” in the Bahamas before the crash occurred. Kit Cody‘s wife, Linda, was supposed to accompany her husband on the trip but backed out at the last minute, according to the newspaper.
Buffalo Bill, whose real name was William F. Cody, was best known for his Wild West show, which ran from the 1880s to the early 1900s.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
By David Lauterborn The April 2013 issue of Wild West features stories about the hard life of a 19th-century cowpuncher, the rough-riding Georgian performers in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, to death of infamous Alaskan con man Soapy Smith, the natural history of the coyote, and the Indians-vs.-settlers Owens Valley (Calif.) War.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net
By David Lauterborn In the April issue of Wild West, readers share dispatches about Arizona Territory Sheriff Glenn Reynolds, as well as Wyatt Earp‘s gun-handling skills and the gun he used in that 1881 fight on Tombstone’s Fremont Street.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s theatrical directorial debut Ted was a hit, no doubt about it. (He’s even hosting the Oscars next year in part due to the film’s success.) So what’s next for MacFarlane on the big screen? How about a trip to the Wild West?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writer-director-voice-artist-etc. and his Ted co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild have written a script called A Million Ways to Die in the West.
The plan is for MacFarlane to star in and direct the Western comedy for a Summer, 2013, release, with the plot being described as “a Blazing Saddles-style movie — meaning a Western with contemporary humor, with one undercurrent being just how dangerous and painful life really was in the late 1800s.” So… Deadwood, but funny? (Actually, Deadwood was pretty funny at times.)
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