The wind howling off the Colorado Rockies sounded like a dying animal. 18-year-old Clara Higgins was dragged up the mountain,…
A brutal winter was days away when the mountain man marched into the town square. I need a wife before…
Dust caked the hem of a dress that had survived three brutal winters, clinging to a woman society had already…
March 1961, Burbank, California. A story conference room on the pinnacle pictures lot, six blocks east of the main gate,…
Fort Worth, Texas, April 27th, 1957. The crystal chandeliers of the Fort Worth Country Club Ballroom rattled as 200 of…
The man had his papers out on the prop table before 7:00 in the morning because that was how these…
There are names in Hollywood that fade with time. And then there are names that become time itself. John Wayne…
October 1957 Pratt, Kansas. A wheat farm 11 mi northwest of town on County Road K, where the land flattens…
November 1960 Cody, Wyoming A boot and saddle shop on Sheridan Avenue, two blocks west of the Buffalo Bill Center,…
June 1979, John Wayne’s son opened his father’s closet and found an army uniform, size 46 long, tag still attached,…