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Hard as Butteri
Italy’s answer to the American cowboy, the buttero is the traditional horseback wrangler of horses or cattle from the west-central coast, stretching from Rome and the surrounding Lazio region north into Tuscany. The buttero sits a broad wooden saddle
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Mescal, Arizona
Tombstone, Ariz., has never looked so good. Or is this Cheyenne, Wyo., or Langtry, Texas? In fact, the movie set of Mescal, 45 miles southeast of Tucson, has doubled for all three real-life towns and played wild and woolly fictional ones in such West
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The Harsh Glare of the Footlights
The California Gold Rush. The very words evoked the strong reaction of an American populace driven by adventure and a lust for easy riches. Drawn inexorably west in the wake of the Jan. 24, 1848, strike at Sutter’s Mill were argonauts from every walk

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