OCALA, Fla. - Dust off your cowboy boots for a trip back in time as we look at a true "Lost Landmark." The Kirby Family Farm is holding a Wild West Weekend this weekend.

Long before the Magic Kingdom drew millions to Central Florida, there was Six-Gun Territory, a land of fantasy filled with outlaws and the fastest draw in the South.

For two decades, from 1963 to 1984, all you needed was a train ticket to Ocala to travel back to the 1880s. Visitors would ride a train into the woods and emerge into a complete Western town—Florida's living, breathing version of "Gunsmoke."

Former employee Art Botzenmaier, a.k.a. "The Tall Texan," says the park capitalized on the Western craze. "At the time, Westerns were all on TV. Everybody was into the old West, and that’s what Six-Gun was based off o

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