The BETRAYAL That Changed the Wild West Forever It was dawn on the freezing plains of the Colorado territory and a Cheyenne chief named Black Kettle was doing exactly what the United States government had told him to do. He had led his people to a specific bend in Sand Creek, surrendered most of his…
John Wesley Hardin: The RUTHLESS Outlaw History Buried In the spring of 1874, a man named Charles Webb rode into the town of Comanche, Texas looking for a fight. Webb was a deputy sheriff, a man who represented the law in a land where the law was often just a suggestion. He was looking for…
20 RUTHLESS Frontier Problems That Broke Even the Toughest In the middle of the 19th century, the American West was not the cinematic dream of golden sunsets and heroic gunfights we often see on television today. For the thousands of families who packed their lives into wooden wagons, it was a landscape of relentless, systemic,…
The FASTEST Frontier Gunfighters Who Were Finally OUTDONE The image of two gunmen facing each other in the center of a dusty street at high noon is one of the most iconic scenes in American history. We have seen it a thousand times in movies and television shows. Two men, hands twitching over their holsters,…
15 REAL Gunslinger Tricks They Used to Draw First In the summer of 1882, a man named Louis Flattel walked into the United [music] States Patent Office with a design that would change the American West forever. It was not a new type of gun or [music] a more powerful bullet. It was a small…
Audrey Hepburn Won the Oscar—Found Gregory Peck Waiting With Flowers and COULDN’T Stop Crying 25th [music] of March, 1954 in the NBC century theater on 7th Avenue held 43 [music] million television watchers in collective suspense. But Gregory Peek was not among them. Four blocks [music] south, the woman he had come to honor was…
Audrey Hepburn Was ALONE—Gregory Peck Made One Call That SHOCKED Hollywood The phone rang twice in the Samuel Goldwin studio trailer before Gregory Peek reached for it. Late autumn of that year, the Nevada desert going dark in that bruised orange that makes even crew members stop and look. He had been tracing lines for…
What Audrey Hepburn Told Gregory Peck About Her Childhood Trauma The last [music] day of filming Roman Holiday wrapped at quarter past 11:00 on the Thursday [music] night in late August of 1952 in Rome was still breathing. Warm stone and espresso and [music] centuries of survival. The Cinecittà sound stage had gone dark. Gregory…
Part 1: Audrey, Grace & Gregory | The Night Hollywood Lost a Star — The Last Preparation The morning of March the 30th, 1955 arrived in Hollywood wearing the disguise of [music] an ordinary Wednesday by 9:00. The cleaners at the RKO pant edges. Theater [music] were polishing brass fixtures. Florists arranging white gardinas and…
Part 2: Audrey, Grace & Gregory | The Night Hollywood Lost a Star — The Oscar Moment The ceremony began at 8:00 and for the first 40 minutes it proceeded [music] with the decorous efficiency that the Academy had refined over 26 years into something approaching art, Bob. Hope presided from the stage with the…
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