Ever wonder how Redding Rodeo week got its annual Old West robbery and contest? Or when did the Lone Stranger become ...

an Old West saloon, a Wells Fargo stagecoach. Vintage movie posters advertise the work of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Johnny Mack Brown, Gary Cooper and Tom Mix, “idol of every boy in the world.” ...

Ask around and the truth may be cloaked in a saloon-full of scuttlebutt ... employees are willing to trick out their business in Western decor for the event. No one is exactly sure when the ...