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It's The Wild Wild West
A quick look at the West and who's got a chance to fight for a ring. Teams other than the Lakers or Blazers need not apply.
nba basketball • western conference

Learn About the Wild Wild West
Learn all about how cowboys lived by browsing through art at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. This cowboy museum is one of the largest in the state.
booth western art museum • african american soldiers • buffalo soldiers • who were the buffalo soldiers • wild wild west

Review: Wild, Wild West
Where are the REAL Jim and Artie when you need them?
movie • review • wild wild west • will smith • kevin kline

South Park | Summer of Sam | Wild Wild West | and More
Reviews of <i>Run Lola Run</i>, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Summer of Sam, This is My Father, and Wild Wild West.
south park • bigger longer and uncut • wild wild west • summer of sam • will smith

Welcome to the Wild, Wild West
British Columbia's provincial government introduces new legislation that effectively removes long-held legal rights of workers - and by extension, all citizens - in the interest of ending labour disruptions.
liberal • gordon campbell • premier • supreme court • heu

Wild Wild West on DVD
Fred reviews Season One on DVD. Giant metal spiders anyone? ... Just Kidding
wild wild west • robert conrad • dvd • season one • 1978

Wild, Wild West Bank: Flashpoint to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
An overview of the issues raised by the Israeli Government and the PLO over the status of the West Bank
west bank • israel • judea • samaria • gaza strip

Scoop for the Week of July 2nd
Would you pay to be a wedding guest? Is $5 million enough for nuptials gone wrong? Are you living where you can keep your eyes wider shut? You're missing everything if you're not getting your celebrity scoop!
pamela anderson lee • tommy lee • marv albert • nbc • celebrity

Firefly: TV Can Be Art
In which we explore the nature of art on television, Joss Whedon's sweet imagination, and the question of whether art must or can appeal to the masses.
joss whedon • serenity • firefly • fox tv • television

Credit Scoring Excoriated
The opposition rallies as the FTC takes a closer look at credit scoring.
credit • scoring • bureau • report • file

Music Night
Missed the 42nd annual Grammy awards? Don't fret because I've the scoop on music's biggest night.
grammy award • musicians

Starfleet Music Pool's Top Twenty
Reporting D.J.'s from Starfleet Music Pool. See what's hot and playing from Charlotte, N.C. Here's their latest Top 20 for July 16 - 31, 1999.
house records • lists • list • top 20 • july

An Introduction to Steampunk
Steampunk is a sub-genre of historical science fiction and fantasy in which the inventions of the future are created using the technologies of the Victorian era.
steampunk • clockpunk • steam • neo-victorian • england

All Aboard for Carson City, Nevada Rail Museum
One of the finest of its kind in America, the State Railroad Museum contains not only restored full-scale rolling stock. It also showcases model trains and memorabilia.
virginia and truckee railway • southern pacific railroad • western pacific railroad • union pacific railroad • nevada copper belt railroad

Historical July, part 1
Although the American Independents Day is the primary event celebrated in July many other historical events also occurred in July such as the Donner Party deciding to split off from their main group and the Whitman-Spalding party of missionaries reaching Independents Rock.
july • independents • fireworks • america • united states

Jim Bridger, part 1
At age 18, Jim Bridger joins Gen. William Ashley's fur-trapping expedition to the headwaters of the Missouri. Later he takes a bull-boad down the Bear River and discovers the Great Salt Lake in Utah. He becomes a partner of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
bridger • sublette • fitzpatrick • fraeb • gervais

KIT CARSON: The Runaway Boy
In 1826, when Kit Carson was sixteen years old, he ran away from his home and job as a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri. Kit was small for his age but he knew he wanted to be a Mountain Man. He had become acquainted with Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain who were fitting out an enormous wagon train filled with trade goods to take to Santa Fe. After Kit talked Bent into hiring him he was on his way to Santa Fe, and would later become one of the noted Mountain Men in the fur trade.
kit carson • franklin • missouri • santa fe • charles bent

New Movie Galleries!
Pointing the way to image galleries from hard to find (on the web) movies, and some reviews of recent entertainment magazines.
entertainment images • magazines • sci-fi • horror • entertainment magazines

The Railroad, part 9
The Central Pacific Railroad is nearing the Sierra Mountains and they are having trouble finding and hiring enough workers, and many of those hired leave the railroad and head for the Nevada gold fields. Charles Crocker convinces his chief of staff, James Harvey Strobridge, to hire Chinese workers when the Irish go on strike.
railroad • chinese • sierra • crocker • sacramento

Top 5 Places To See In Southern Arizona
You can now live out your very own Old West adventures by taking a trip to the beautiful and historic Tucson, Bisbee, and Tombstone, Arizona.
beautiful and historic tucson • arizona • famous tombstone • old bisbee • mission san xavier del bac tucson

Top Restaurants in Scottsdale, Arizona
Like the mythical Phoenix, the culinary landscape in Phoenix/Scottsdale is rising up to become a force to be reckoned with on the national food scene.
scottsdale restaurants • binkley's • kai • see saw • talavera

U2 Get On Your Boots Single Review
Irish rockers U2 return after a 5 year hiatus with new single 'Get On Your Boots',an electro-charged single that renews interest in the band.
u2 • u2 get on your boots • u2 no line on the horizon • new u2 song • u2 get on your boots single review

V&T Railroad Makes Debut During Railfest
During August 15 and 16, 2009, celebrate an historic occasion when the V&T Railroad makes its first journey between Virginia City and Carson City in 71 years.
reno nevada • carson city nevada • virginia city nevada • railfest • v&t railroad

Americas Black West, part 1
Esteban Dorantes, around 1527, looks for the Seven Cities of Gold in Arizona and New Mexico. In the late 1700s Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable establishes a fur trading business on the Chicago River. In 1804, York as the slave of William Clark travels westward with the Corps of Discovery. James Beckwourth, fur trapper and mountain man, becomes a member of a Crow Indian band. Benjamin Singleton, following the Civil War, endorses movement of freed blacks to Kansas.
nicodemus • esteban dorantes • jean baptiste pointe du sable • york • william clark

Historical July, part 2
Although the American Independents Day is the primary event celebrated in July many other historical events also occurred in July such as the Donner Party deciding to split off from their main group and the Whitman-Spalding party of missionaries reaching Independents Rock.
july • independents • fireworks • america • united states

Jessie and Her Pathfinder, part 1
Jessie Benton, daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, grew up in Virginia, Missouri, and Washington D. C. At the age of 15 she meets and falls in love with John Charles Fremont. Her parents extract a promise from the young couple to wait one year before marrying.
fremont • john • charles • jessie • benton

Jessie and Her Pathfinder, part 2
Jessie Fremont spends Christmas at home alone with her and John’s baby daughter, Lily. Fremont makes another exploration. Jessie has a second child, a son who does not live long. Fremont is dubbed The Pathfinder. Gold is discovered in California and Jessie and Lily travel west.
fremont • john • charles • jessie • benton

Jessie and Her Pathfinder, part 3
Fremont is elected senator from California. The Fremonts lose money on their ranch and a railroad investment. Jessie gives birth to two more children, and one son and daughter die. Fremont is a presidential candidate for the Republican Party. The Civil War begins.
fremont • john • charles • jessie • benton

Jim Bridger, part 2
Fort Bridger becomes an important stopping place on the Oregon Trail until the Mormons run him out. The Mormons destroy the fort but the Army takes it over and rebuilds it. It is finally abanded by the Army in 1890. Bridger retires from the fur trade and settles on a farm in Missouri until his death in 1881.
bridger • oregon • green river • uintah mountains • mormons

JOE MEEK BECOMES A MOUNTAIN MAN
Joe Meek was a very young man when he left his Virginia home for the west. In St. Louis he saw many wonderful sites but what caught his eye most were the mountain men. After sighing on with Bill Sublette's fur company Joe learned just what kind of a man it took to become a mountain man.
joe • meek • sublette • st. louis • cumberland

Mandan
This is a history of the Mandan Indians, dating back some eight hundred years ago as they migrated westward, following the Missouri River. In time, they met white men. Then, in 1838, the deadly small pox nearly destroyed them.
mandan • indians • missouri river • native americans • plains

Melodramas or How The Old West Can Be Fun
The very name conjures up images of overacting, booing and hissing, and corny jokes. Why not? It's great fun!
plays • playwriting • farce • melodrama

Ressurected! (and more...)
A dead site returns from the grave, as well as cool links and magazine reviews!
entertainment • image • picture • still • screengrab

Scoop for the Week of August 6th
Friends Who Won't Be There. Ricky Martin Going To The Hospital? Time Off For Good Behavior? You won't know what's going on if you don't read this week's Celebrity Scoop!
friends • television • ricky martin • movies • movie

The Outlaw Who Got Away--Or Did He? part 1
Did the outlaw Robert LeRoy Parker, better know as Butch Cassidy, die by the gun in South America? Or did he return to the United States and live out his life as William Phillips in Spokane, Washington?
butch • cassidy • robert • leroy • parker

The Railroad, part 1
On February 22, 1854 the railroad reached the Mississippi River in the vicinity of Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa. A grand celebration was made honoring promoter Henry Farnam as well as many others.
railroad • rock island • farnam • mississippi • missouri

The Railroad, part 10
Strobridge and Crocker are so pleased with his Chinese workers that they continue to hire them until the Chinatowns of Sacramento and San Francisco are nearly empty. A shale wall some 2,000 feet high is blasted out by the Chinese.
railroad • chinese • sierra • crocker • sacramento

The Railroad, part 11
The Kansas Pacific reaches Fort Riley, Kansas in 1866 where Custer is forming the Seventh Cavalry. The following year the track extend to Abilene and Ellsworth. William Cody is supply the construction crews with meat. Soon, the cattle drives begin and the cow town is born.
railroad • kansas pacific • smoky hills • custer • cody

The Railroad, part 2
On February 22, 1854 the railroad reached the Mississippi River in the vicinity of Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa. A grand celebration was made honoring promoter Henry Farnam as well as many others.
railroad • rock island • farnam • mississippi • missouri

The Railroad, part 3
Farnam complete the building of his railroad bridge across the Mississippi River but a river packet crashes into it, resulting in a disaster and a law suit. Lawyer Abraham Lincoln represents the Farnam interest in court.
railroad • rock island • farnam • lincoln • robert e. lee

The Railroad, part 6
The American Civil War has ended. Even before its end Durant is plotting money schemes to line his and his associates pockets with the public and the government’s money. One such scheme is the Credit Mobilier.
railroad • credit mobilier • durant • hoxie • dey

The Railroad, part 7
In Sacramento, California, Colin Huntington, Charles Crocker, California governor Leland Stanford, and Mark Hopkins, four California merchants, pool their funds and start construction on the Central Pacific Railroad in spite of numerous oppositions.
sacramento • california • colin huntington • charles crocker • leland stanford

The Railroad, part 8
The Big 4 and the Central Pacific railroad determine that the Sierra Mountains start 23 miles further out on the flat lands in order to get additional funding from the government. The Civil War causes an incredible inflation on railroad supplies.
railroad • sierra • crocker • huntington • stanford

The Sagers Go West, part 1
In the fall of 1843, the Sager family leave Platte County, Missouri, heading on their westward journey to Oregon Country. It is late in the season and they spend the winter in St. Joseph. In spring of 1844, with many others, they resume their journey. Their first river to cross is the wide Missouri River. With it comes their first disaster.
sager • henry • naomi • missouri • platte county

The Sagers Go West, part 3
Brother Frank Sager invents a dangerous game for himself and his two oldest sisters to play. The wagon train crosses the South Fork of the Platte River and disaster strikes again. They reach Fort Laramie and rest for a few hours before continuing on but a deeper tragedy befalls the Sager family.
sager • henry • naomi • catherine • frank

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