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ACES and
EIGHTS: Wild
Bill Hickock was killed by an assasin's bullet in Deadwood's Number Ten
Saloon. The fallen Galahad died at a poker table, holding a final hand
of aces and eights.( excerpt 1.08MB) |
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Streets of Laredo: An
elegant little tune of Irish parentage that became the most beloved western
ballad of its day and ours.(excerpt 1.36mb) |
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The Big Sky:
A tune for all those sturdy souls who went adventuring under western skies
in the days of the buffalo, the gold strikes, and the endless prairie.(excerpt
875KB) |
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Angel of Deadwood: Calamity
Jane earned this unlikely but enduring sobriquet during the Deadwood smallpox
epidemic.(excerpt 1.01MB) |
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Little Joe: Tells
the true story of an ill-fated orphan boy on his first last and only cattle
drive.He was just a scrawny stray, but his courage and sprit are legend.(excerpt
998KB) |
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Los Golondrinkas:another
beaAutiful melody from nineteenth-century Mexico. The "Swallows"
traveled well beyond the Rio Grande and took flight in many a cow camp
and boomtown across the Southwest.(excerpt 1.01MB) |
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Widow Maker: The
guns that ruled the West were beautifully designed, finely crafted, and
often works of art.(excerpt 944KB) |
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Silver Threads among the Gold:
A song our grandmothers knew well,
although it was a bit musty even in their day. Billy the Kid often whistled
this little tune, his favorite, in times when it was a new sensation on
the palor circuit.(excerpt 1.04mB) |
