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  Norfolk Southern Lawmen Band :: News
The Lawmen have made past appearances in the area for 5 years at the Make-A-Wish Spring Fling and last year the group of former railroad police officers headlined the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s fund raising drive.
The Lawmen with their unique blend of country, rock, folk, oldies, beach and bluegrass music, have been entertaining audiences for over 50 years.
The Lawmen spend the winter months entertaining Norfolk Southern employees and customers at their corporate meetings near Charleston, SC and during the summer they travel the US and Canada.
www.norfolksouthernlawmen.com /news.html   (1485 words)

  
 Books - Western Americana from Randall House (805) 963-1909
The Provincias Internas del Occidente were to comprise the provinces of Alta and Baja California, Sonora, and Pimer’a Alta, the latter finally communicating with Alta California by a land route established through the Colorado Desert by Juan Bautista de Anza between 1774 and 1776.
Thus, the seat of government for the western Provincias Internas was established at Arizpe in Sonora by Croix.
Lists 182 items including printers' memoirs, journals & private papers, histories of western printing houses, novels based on western printing, works on early day controversies in Western printing, pre-1900 Specimen Books, etc. Much of the material is on California but includes some items of New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, and other western states.
www.randallhouserarebooks.com /lists/westam.html   (4577 words)

  
 Bass Reeves
At different times, his belt was shot in two, a button shot off his coat, his hat brim shot off, and the bridle reins, which he held in his hands, cut by a bullet.
Lawmen who rode with him said he always sang softly to himself before he went into a gunfight.
Standing before both lawmen were Webb and Smith, with guns drawn, but down at their sides.
www.theoutlaws.com /lawmen2.htm   (7959 words)

  
 The Old West Links
A fantastic list of links to all aspects of the Oregon Trail, the people who traveled it such as the Donner Party, and other trails.
Lists sites that are still visible, such as visible ruts.
This section supplies links for general western history and other general history sites that contain western history through their search engines.
www.suite101.com /links.cfm/old_west   (895 words)

  
 Henry Plummer
Gold was desperately needed, and while many western mining men temporarily gave up the chase for wealth to fight for the Blue or the Gray, there were still plenty of adventurers, scoundrels, and prospectors ready to follow the cry of gold.
Yeager is supposed to have dictated a list of gang members, a list that included Henry Plummer’s name as the leader.
In addition to the suspicion aroused by the discrepancies of Yeager’s outlaw list, the four bungled crimes, the lack of any kind of connection between the crimes, and the forced confessions at the end of a rope, there is the ominous lack of resistance to the vigilantes.
www.theoutlaws.com /lawmen1.htm   (6543 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen & Outlaws: Books: Jay Robert Nash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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First tag: western nonfictin to be read at leisurel...
I have seen books on lawmen of the old west, and also books on outlaws of the west, for the first time you have a reference book that gives you both and at a price that makes it a great gift for anyone.
www.amazon.com /Encyclopedia-Western-Lawmen-Outlaws-Robert/dp/030680591X   (1378 words)

  
 Western Horseman: Personalities
The horse is feather-light as he floats from gait to gait in perfect frame.
Buster Welch is the recipient of the 2006 Western Horseman Award.
Instead, they handled big cattle herds on the unfenced western range, where a cowboy rarely got off his horse except to brand.
www.westernhorseman.com /personalities/index.shtml   (271 words)

  
  DEFINITIONS page of ULTIMATE WESTERNS WEB GUIDE
The Marxist version holds that Westerns serve a social purpose as an oppressive agent of the upper classes, the Freudians hold that Westerns serve a psychological purpose as agents of wish fulfillment, and the neo-structuralists hold that Westerns serve a purpose to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, and sex.
The "western story" as a particular variation on that form, has been among the most popular in literary history, a haven for readers trapped in an increasingly urban and complex world.
Traditional westerns like Shane and High Noon created the fantasy hero of the early twentieth century, but these were over stamped with revisionist westerns which showed the West "as it really was," portraying Wild Bill Hickock as a syphillitic braggart, Wyatt Earp as a crooked whoremaster, Custer as an incompetent glory hunter, and so on.
www.magicdragon.com /Wdef.html   (2600 words)

  
 Ride the High Country (1962)
While Sergio Leone was serving up a fistful of Spaghetti Westerns that pulled the genre toward a super-realistic grittiness and violence, Peckinpah was fascinated by the passing of an Old West that represented a loss of virgin territory and freedom from society's encroachments.
He collaborated on a story that featured two aging lawmen who feel their own days are as numbered as those of the West that they love.
That theme is made even more poignant because it's the last film that Western movie icon Randolph Scott would make, and fellow knight-on-horseback Joel McCrea would retire afterwards because he wanted to go out on top.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=2508&buy=closed&PID=10121279&Tab=reviews&CID=18   (751 words)

  
 Images - The Western: An Overview
The iconography of the Western is the largest and richest of all the film genres, and Hollywood has burned it into the minds of moviegoers from Dodge City to Timbuktu.
At the heart of the Western, and not to be underestimated, was physical action--runaway stagecoaches, Indian raids, bank holdups, posse pursuits, and cattle stampedes.
And in the process, the Western myth engulfed American popular culture--from clothes (denim jackets, jeans, and cowboy boots) to children's toys (cap guns, rubber-tipped arrows, and tom toms).
www.imagesjournal.com /issue06/infocus/western.htm   (893 words)

  
 TEXAS RANGER DISPATCH Magazine
Universally recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities of western history, Leon’s resume is impressive.
A very short list of his outstanding books would include definitive works on Pat Garrett (Pat Garrett: Story of a Western Lawman) and John Wesley Hardin (John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas, a book that won the 1997 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America).
He is the past president of the aforementioned Western Writers of America and has appeared countless times on the Learning Channel’s Gunfighters of the Old West, A and E’s The Real West series, and as an expert commentator on the History Channel.
www.texasranger.org /dispatch/10/Pages/EncyLawmen.htm   (324 words)

  
 African Americans and the Old West
Lewis and Clark kept a journal of their travels from 1825-1828 which listed Sacajawea as dead, but no exact date and place was ever recorded of her later life.
The story goes that the lawmen planned a surprise ambush, and, when the gang of thieves returned, they were all shot and killed while Ned Huddleston was away.
The western saga is multidimensional and can help broaden a person's scope and understanding of what truly happened as the American old west evolved.
www.liu.edu /CWIS/CWP/library/african/west/west.htm   (12045 words)

  
 Fugitive named to '15 Most Wanted' list - Boston.com
A fugitive suspected of killing a state trooper and wounding two others has been named by federal marshals to their "15 Most Wanted" list while a two-state manhunt continues.
As New York lawmen searched for Phillips in the rural wooded areas of the southwestern tip of the state, he was staying -- at least some of the time -- at the home of Todd Allen Nelson in Ludlow, Pa., Pennsylvania state police said.
In naming Phillips to the U.S. Marshals most wanted list, Marshals Service Director John Clark said the fugitive "has shown he is as dangerous as he is desperate.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/09/07/fugitive_named_to_15_most_wanted_list?mode=PF   (480 words)

  
 Complete List to Explorers, Trappers, Traders, and Mountain Men of the American West
Davy Crockett (1786-1836) - Frontiersman, explorer, and American folk hero, Crockett a represented Tennessee in the U.S. Congress, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the age of 49 at the Battle of the Alamo.
John Charles Fremont (1813-1890) - Was an explorer, military officer, and politician who led multiple surveying expeditions through the western territory of the United States.
Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831) - A hunter, trapper, fur trader and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the west coast, and the southwest during the nineteenth century.
www.legendsofamerica.com /WE-ExplorerList.html   (860 words)

  
 Johns' Western Gallery
Western Americana Arizona Ephemera Cattle Paper Ra Annual Report of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1917 $75.00 np: np [Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe], 1917.
list of paintings in the exhibition laid in.
Documents in relation to the Employment of Volunteer Mounted Gunmen on the Western Frontier of the United States $25.00 Washington DC: 20th Congress/1st Session, HD 234, 1828.
www.johnswestern.com /servlet/the-template/fulllist/Page   (13304 words)

  
 Bordertown TV Show - Bordertown Television Show - TV.com
The series is set in the 1880\'s, and centers around two lawmen, an American Marshal and a Canadian Mounted Policeman, who must share jurisdiction of a small town that straddles the U.S./Canadian border.
Both are romantically interested in Marie Dumont, the French widow of the town doctor, who has taken over her late husband\'s practice.', 'Bordertown, a weekly, half-hour western, quickly became the Family Channel\'s highest rated original series when it debuted in 1989.
It is up to the townspeople to deliver a ransom to the outlaws and free the lawmen and Marie.
www.tv.com /bordertown/show/6121/summary.html   (387 words)

  
 Lawmen - Moviefone
Lawmen - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times Billed fourth in Law Men is orchestra leader Kirby Grant, later famous as TV's Sky King.
Texas Lawmen - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times Texas Lawmen was based on a story by actor Myron Healey, who often showed up in the Brown vehicles as a villain.
Lawmen Collection DVD movie at Video Universe Great prices on Lawmen Collection DVD movie and review at Video Universe, Great service secure ordering and fast shipping at everyday discount prices.
movies.aol.com /movie/lawmen/1020322/main   (173 words)

  
 Montana Vigilantes and the Origins for 3-7-77
It was not until December 1864 that Hezekiah Hosmer, a federal judge appointed by President Abraham Lincoln, convened the territory’s first grand jury in the dining room of a hotel in Virginia City, Montana’s largest mining settlement, and began enforcing a formal criminal code.
The twenty-one victims are listed in Thomas Dimsdale’s The Vigilantes of Montana (Virginia City, Mont., 1866).
Smurr, in “Afterthoughts on the Vigilantes,” Montana The Magazine of Western History, 8 (Spring 1958), 8-20, questions the motives and propriety of the vigilantes’ executions and suggests that they relied on extralegal action mostly to avoid the expense and uncertainty of public trials.
visitmt.com /history/Montana_the_Magazine_of_Western_History/montanavigilantes1.htm   (2925 words)

  
 John R. Moore's web page
This one is a great western that should have won the Oscar.
Two aging lawmen try to recapture the past by escorting a gold shipment from a mining town.
A dark western noir style film that has a saddle tramp getting caught up in a range war.
mywebpages.comcast.net /jmoore1692/westerns.htm   (543 words)

  
 The Question Corral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I'm going to conclude that the actor requested that his name not be listed because of the perceived "jinx" that attached itself to anyone who "killed" on screen such a great national icon.
Martin's lists of credits is a short one--probably all minor roles as well, so his face is pretty unfamiliar to just about all of us--except this one particular role, of course.
While we're on the subject, let's list some of the printable nicknames that were given to the trail-drive cooks by the long-suffering cowboys: "greasy belly," "biscuit shooter," "belly-cheater," "gut robber," and "dough boxer".
www.wildwestweb.net /answers.html   (3839 words)

  
 The Complete List of Old West Outlaws - Last Name Starting With N-O
Both Newcomb and Charley Pierce were shot and killed by lawmen.
However, lawmen on the train put up a fierce fight, in which Newman and Keaton were both wounded.
When Bill Taylor escaped from jail, lawmen made a deal with Bud that he would be freed if he would help them track down Bill Taylor.
www.legendsofamerica.com /WE-OutlawList-N-O.html   (892 words)

  
 John R. Moore's web page
This one is a great western that should have won the Oscar.
Two aging lawmen try to recapture the past by escorting a gold shipment from a mining town.
A dark western noir style film that has a saddle tramp getting caught up in a range war.
home.comcast.net /~jmoore1692/westerns.htm   (543 words)

  
 Aug Reviews
Notes, a glossary, an appendix listing all of the known territorial Hispanic tinsmiths working from 1850 to 1910, and a comprehensive bibliography make this book a must for anyone remotely interested in the early village arts of New Mexico.
Hoig also lists museums along the way, a helpful edition to those of us who are addicted to such institutions.
Elias Boudinot was instrumental in the removal of the Eastern Cherokees to present-day western Arkansas, and saw education as the road to advancement of the Cherokee Nation.
www.westernwriters.org /aug_reviews.htm   (8264 words)

  
 Digital History
This site, created by the Association for the Preservation of Virginian Antiquities, provides a brief history of Jamestown, a list of early settlers, and a timeline of events leading up to the settlement of Jamestown.
A chronology listing important events in the history of emancipation during the Civil War.
This is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War; a list of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies; identifications and descriptions of 384 significant battles of the war;
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/annot_links_list.cfm   (3432 words)

  
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In many Western states, for instance, it is the strength of these voters that leads many liberal Democrats to vote against gun control, not some need for PAC money from the NRA.
The choice in most western states is not between liberals who favor gun control and liberals who oppose it; it is between a liberal who opposes gun control and a conservative.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/roc/archive/roc.199905   (16157 words)

  
 Audio Books on Cassette and CD - Audio Editions audio books on tape and CD
A brilliant, richly imagined Western, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset.
Two itinerant lawmen, used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, find an unusually wily adversary in a rancher in the small, dusty town of Appaloosa.
War with the Indians interrupts her love for Alfred Clarke, leading to her heroic defense of the fort at Wheeling and a final race for life.
www.audioeditions.com /showcat.cfm?catname=Westerns   (589 words)

  
 Book Lists and Bibliographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
List of 20 scary novels, published between 1988 and 1998, with authors, publication info, and summaries.
List of authors and titles suggested, in subject areas: Medieval and Renaissance, 17th and 18th Century British Literature, Romantic and Victorian Literature, American Literature (Colonial to 1900), 20th Century Literature, and Literary Criticism.
List of the 100 best novels as determined by students in the Radcliffe Publishing Course, who are tomorrow's publishing industry leaders.
www.waterborolibrary.org /bklista.htm   (10132 words)

  
 Whitewash City - Game Rules Page
However, as a reference for ideas, and for information (especially on weapons: there are 131 pistols and over 90 shoulder arms listed in the weapon section), they are well worth their weight and total, all four books combined, just over 180 pages.
Written by Jeff Grossman; published by Piquet Inc. Pkowboys is intended to represent skirmish combat between rival gangs (outlaws, lawmen, gunslingers, and townsfolk) in the American West between 1860 and 1900.
In ps format, they total two printed pages, but there are also a downloadable list of 1000 pre-written characters (I counted them), and a short list of scenario ideas, which is a very nice touch and useful.
www.erichotz.com /game_rules1.html   (5489 words)

  
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> >This list is for a dedicated purpose, and while humor and venom often seem >to creep (creep hell, it flows like lava) in to our conversations, I would >think it a better practice to keep the personal comments personal and off >the list.
Regardless, it is offensive and was intended by the users on this list to be offensive.
I will be appearing in a Discovery Channel documentary called "Texas Rangers: Legendary Lawmen." The series is listed on TV schedules as "On the Inside," with this episode being about the history of the Rangers.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/hist_text/archive/v01.n547   (5207 words)

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