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Spanish Cuera to fight the early Apaches	62	23 Jul 2024 1:01 a.m. PST
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cavalry game in nashville	4	28 Jun 2024 7:16 p.m. PST
Hollywood to Historicon theme game	9	27 Jun 2024 6:20 a.m. PST
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28 or 15mm Comanches	10	11 Jun 2024 1:45 a.m. PST
Female Native American Minis	10	05 Jun 2024 12:43 p.m. PST
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Miniatures and rules for Indian wars (Southwest)	13	24 May 2024 4:04 a.m. PST
New Film. "The Damned"	9	23 May 2024 11:45 p.m. PST
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Norton I, Emperor of the United States	11	16 May 2024 3:33 p.m. PST
Learning from Historical Fiction: A Family Tale Reveals a	1	15 May 2024 5:13 p.m. PST
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A Celebratory Old West blog post...	6	12 May 2024 7:29 p.m. PST
Models for 3D Printing - Wild West 3.0	3	12 May 2024 4:14 p.m. PST
Panic, Erratic Behavior, and the Psychological Impact	3	06 May 2024 3:44 p.m. PST
Gunfight at the OK Corral & The Earp Vendetta Ride	1	03 May 2024 12:46 p.m. PST
Sculpting Chinese miners	10	02 May 2024 9:05 p.m. PST
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Chuck Wagon.	9	02 May 2024 12:29 p.m. PST
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Purgatory 2 - A Gary Chalk Wild West Town in 20mm	7	30 Apr 2024 7:08 a.m. PST
Rosa Bonheur and Buffalo Bill & his Indians 1889	4	28 Apr 2024 5:01 p.m. PST
Food Poisoning in the Old West	13	27 Apr 2024 5:14 p.m. PST
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Guns From The Old West You’ve Got To Know	10	23 Apr 2024 4:29 p.m. PST
Best cavalry vs plains Indian rules	11	23 Apr 2024 6:28 a.m. PST
The Greatest Shootout in Wild West History	11	23 Apr 2024 5:01 a.m. PST
For the Record...	10	22 Apr 2024 5:48 a.m. PST
Misguided by experience: a defense of Custer's actions	14	20 Apr 2024 11:09 a.m. PST
Good Wild West Rules?	31	18 Apr 2024 3:34 p.m. PST
Major Dundee--what happened to him afterwards?	35	16 Apr 2024 6:50 p.m. PST
Why We’ve Gotten ‘Custer’s Last Stand’ Wrong ...	32	10 Apr 2024 1:26 p.m. PST
Hembrillo Battlefield	1	25 Mar 2024 5:07 p.m. PST
Colt Revolvers: The Greatest Handguns of the Old West	9	23 Mar 2024 3:40 p.m. PST
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Wild West Figures May Not Have Appropriate Headgear	11	23 Mar 2024 3:05 p.m. PST
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Buildings for my TWI project	8	22 Mar 2024 7:28 a.m. PST
Westerns That Were Wonderfully Weird	7	18 Mar 2024 3:34 p.m. PST
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Old West Game.	1	11 Mar 2024 5:09 p.m. PST
Pony Wars - Life is cheap on the plains.	5	05 Mar 2024 4:48 p.m. PST
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Women and the Myth of the American West	5	20 Feb 2024 3:24 p.m. PST
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The Weird Old West: Horror And Fantasy	18	07 Feb 2024 4:32 p.m. PST
Resistance of the Indians in the West	9	01 Feb 2024 3:17 p.m. PST
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wargame rules to fight the battles of the 1876 campaign	6	19 Jan 2024 10:09 p.m. PST
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Alamo Project North Wall	9	12 Jan 2024 4:04 p.m. PST
25mm Indian with bows	10	09 Jan 2024 11:53 p.m. PST
Some more warriors with guns	7	03 Jan 2024 12:53 p.m. PST
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The Old West 1816-1900 Skirmish Wargames	13	31 Dec 2023 11:37 a.m. PST
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Figure Recommendation, John Herod - Quick and the Dead	2	09 Dec 2023 10:16 p.m. PST
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The US-Mexican War: Forgotten Foes	3	23 Sep 2023 3:06 p.m. PST