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December 29, 2008 - January 4, 2009

• As we do at the beginning of each year, this week’s program is the “best of” 2008.” The show begins with Madison Walker telling us about U. S. Marshal for Judge Parker, Bass Reeves.

• Click HERE to listen to the conversation between Madison Walker and Dakota about Bass Reeves.

Madison Walker

Bass Reeves

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• The second half of the show is a conversation Dakota had with Jim MacGregor attacking the question, “Would there have been a Wild West had there not have been a Civil War?"

Jim MacGregor

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• Our Cowboy music this week is by Sons and Brothers.

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December 22-28, 2008

• Dakota was able to catch up with a busy Sharon Cunningham to talk to her about an anthology that she’s helping to put together about buffalo skinners and hunters.

• Click HERE to listen to Sharon talk about buffalo skinners and hunters.

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• We’re all familiar with the Lincoln County War involving Billy the Kid. But this wasn’t the first Lincoln County War. Jim MacGregor tells us about that first war that involved the Horrell brothers.

Jim MacGregor

On the Lampasas County Courthouse Square

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December 15-21, 2008

• When Bill O’Neal discovered that Dakota, Sunny and Jake are staying in Benson, AZ, he shared with Dakota what he considers one of the great one-on-one gunfights of the Old West that took place in Benson.

• Click HERE to listen to Dakota and Bill O'Neal discuss the Benson, Arizona Holdup.

Bill O'Neal

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• During the Western Music Association’s Convention in Albuquerque, NM, Dakota got together with two of the outstanding cowboy singers, R. W. Hampton and Bill Barwick. Their conversation highlights the second half of the show.

R.W. Hampton

Bill Barwick

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December 8-14, 2008

• This week’s show begins with a conversation with Don Taylor and Stephen Keith at the actual location of the original O.K. Corral Gunfight in Tombstone.

• Click HERE to listen to Dakota talk with Don and Stephen about the O.K. Corral.

O.K. Corral

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• While in Tombstone, Dakota and Jim MacGregor got together to talk about two people who never were in Tombstone…Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. They discuss their lives, deaths and relationship.

Billy the Kid Pat Garrett

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• Our Cowboy music this week is by Michael Martin Murphey.

Michael Martin Murphey

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December 1-7, 2008

• This week’s show is a celebration of one of Arizona’s great Old West ranches…the Empire Ranch.

Empire Ranch

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• Dakota attended the Empire Ranch Annual Roundup. While there he talked to reata maker Dick Schoor and Sarah Miller with the Empire Ranch Foundation.

reatas

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• Dakota and Bill O’Neal talked about the Empire Ranch from his "Historic Ranches of the Old West" book.

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