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Wild West

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Wild Horses

What is known in the movies as the “wild west” may just be that. Roughly 30,000 wild horses have been rounded up and are currently in custody in federal holding pens, some of which were set to be euthanised. The story has a happy ending though in the form of billionaire T. Boone Pickens’ wife [...]

Reliving the Old West

Former ranch hand Bill Inman has set off to do something that hasn’t been done in probably close to a century: he’s riding across the country on horseback. With a documentary film crew in tow, and his wife driving along ahead of him to take phone calls from the press, Bill spoke with NPR on [...]

Behind the Myth: The Real Modern Cowboys of the Modern Wild West

Behind the urban myths of the West, lies a much darker and more heroic characters than our collective speculations might suggest. Cowboys are focused, strong willed, and live and die on the land:
Proof of the cowboy’s resilience is that he has survived Hollywood’s ceaseless hyping of him as the quintessence of terse, masculine individuality. [...]