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| December 1999 |
Features - The Three Guardsmen and Marshal Nix (While working for Marshal E.D. Nix, U.S. Deputy Marshals Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman and Chris Madsen became Oklahoma's most legendary lawmen.), Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Traveling across the Wild West with a baby on her back, the young Indian mother Sacagawea was, as William Clark wrote in his journal, "a token of peace">), Fort Laramie: Gateway to the Far West (To protect the thousands of pioneers traveling on the Oregon Trail to the Far West, the old trading post was transformed into a military fort 150 years ago,), Kickapoo Counterattack at Dove Creek (Confederate Regulars and Texas militiamen attacked a peaceful Indian camp on the morning of January 8, 1865, a costly raid that would haunt Texans for years to come.), 'A Quiet Christmas in Indian Territory Days in 1887' ("Now, this Della Humber had said he was the one tht killed Jim Guy, so I wanted him and did not care how much how I got him" wrote the famous U.S. Deputy Marshall.) Departments - Warriors and Chiefs (At Fort Robinson in 1879, Dull Knife told his fellow Cheyennes, "Let us never give up to these people, to be taken back south to the country we have run away from".), Western Lore (Twenty years before the California Gold Rush, the Twenty-Niners were pouring into the rugged mountains of North Georgia in search of golden nuggets.), Gunfighters and Lawmen (The law seemed unable, or unwilling, to do anything about the Notch-Cutter Gang's murdering and thieving, so the citizens of McDade, Texas turned vigilantes.), Artists West (Larry Edgar captures a Dalton Gang moment at Coffeyville in Brothers of the Gun.), Westerners (When botanist Thomas Nuttall set out for the southern Rockies in 1819, he found himself relying, more than he ever imagined, on a mysterious trapper named Lee.) |
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| February 2008 |
Features - The Tigers Of The Southwest (Religiously, medicinally and militarily attuned to their often harsh environment, well-trained Apache warriors were part of one of the greatest light cavalry and guerrilla fighting forces in the world); Apache Country (See the places in Arizona Territory, New Mexico Territory and northern Mexico where the Apache Indians lived and fought); The Battle Of Cieneguilla: Dragoons vs. Jicarilla (The circumstances surrounding the New Mexico Territory fight on March 30, 1854, have been disputed, but it turned into a desperate struggle for survival for 60 dragoons); Cochise Stronghold (The Chiricahuas, most notably the feared and resourceful Cochise, survived and thrived in an unforgiving land, including the Dragoon Mountains, from which they wreaked havoc on their American and Mexican enemies); A Close Shave For The Barber Of Dodge (John Tyler, an ex-slave from Missouri who owned a barber shop and residence on Dodge City's Front Street, mistakenly shot a white farmer in January 1876. That shooting figured to be costly for Tyler, but, with a little help from surprising friends in town, he held his ground) Departments - Editor's Letter; Letters; Roundup (News and events celebrating the frontier, plus California author Lee A. Silva's Top Ten "Types of Weapons That Won The West"); Interview (Historian Richard W. Etulain, a self-described "son of a Basque," goes beyond New Mexico and Beyond The Missouri in his latest work); Westerners (A noted cowboy of Wyoming); Gunfighters And Lawmen (Outlaw "Black Jack" Bill Christian did shoot Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Hocker just above the heart, but that wasn't the end of the road for the young lawman); Pioneers And Settlers (After killing Hamilton and Juniata McComas on the road to Lordsburg in dangerous southwestern New Mexico Territory, Apache raiders decided to keep the couple's blond 6-year-old son Charlie); Indian Life (While on assignment in Alaska Territory, Lieutenant Charles Wood learned plenty about Tlingit food, totem poles, women and evil spirits, as well as Ghost Bears. But his goal was to climb what was then believed to be the world's highest mountain); Western Enterprise (Forty miles south of Dodge City, merchant Cash Henderson founded a town that, fittingly enough, was named Cash City. But the cash of area farmers would not flow for very long); Ghost Towns (Grafton was founded by Mormons in southern Utah Territory in the 1860s, deserted in the 1920s and rediscovered by Hollywood in the 1950s); Collections (The White Mountain Apaches' growing archival collection is on display at the tribal museum in Fort Apache Historic Park in southeastern Arizona); Guns Of The West (In the 1840s and '50s, the Model 1842 pistol filled the saddle holsters of many a dragoon and plainsman); Art Of The West (The Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market celebrates its 50th anniversary by bringing more than 670 artists in Phoenix); Reviews (Must-read books and must-see movies (well, at least one is really an old TV story) about Dodge City. Plus reviews of recent books, a documentary and another documentary's riveting musical score); Sold! (George Armstrong Custer and his fresh kill...an elk, to be specific) |
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| April 2009 |
Features - Lincoln Looks West (Abraham Lincoln's frontier background made him a Man of the West, and as president he forged strong links to the trans-Mississippi West - from the Homestead Act to his resolution of the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota); Chock-Full Of Chuck (The chuck wagon, invented in 1866 by cattle baron Charles Goodnight, was the utilitarian mobile kitchen of the open range, and "cookie" was de facto king among hungry cowboys during a long cattle drive); The Lowdown On 'Quarrelsome' Bill Downing (In the 1890s, the ornery and mysterious cowhand drifted into Arizona Territory, where he shot a man and robbed a train); The Search For The Captives Of Elm Creek (The swift and deadly 1864 Elm Creek Raid in Texas and the subsequent quest to rescue female captives from Comanche and Kiowa raiders displayed all the drama of a Hollywood Western - John Ford's The Searchers, to be specific); Chasing The Elusive Joaquin Murrieta (Some consider him a Hispanic Robin Hood, others a depraved and greedy bandit - whatever the truth, llike the fictional Zorro, he left his mark on gold rush California) Departments - Editor's Letter; Letters; Roundup (News of the PBS American Indian miniseries coming this April, as well as newly erected statues of Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok. Also, Richard Etulain's Top Ten Books about the American West. Plus, West Words and Famous Last Words); Interview (Award-winning Oklahoma writer Robert J. Conley discusses his Cherokee encyclopedia and shares his uncensored Cherokee thoughts); Westerners (A boy and his dog pose with men who clown for the camera outside an old-time saloon); Gunfighters And Lawmen (The not-always-celebrated California Rangers, led by Captain Harry Love, tried to get ahead of the fast-moving outlaw Joaquin Murrieta); Pioneers And Settlers (Walter von Richthofen, uncle of Germany's notorious Red Baron, was himself a baron who came to Denver to invest in cattle, beer and milk...and to build a castle); Indian Life (Was Geronimo's conversion to Christianity a sham or an attempt by the fearsome Apache warrior to find peace late in life?); Western Enterprise (Back when transplanting gold was dangerous business, Wells Fargo rose to prominence. The company and its stagecoach logo remain familiar); Ghost Towns (Although South Pass City sat near the well-trodden Oregon Trail, it was a Gold Rush that prompted the birth of this Wyoming Territory community); Art Of The West (Charles Russel's sweeping panorama Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross' Hole graces the Capitol in Helena, Montana); Collections (In the land of the rendezvous, the Museum of the Mountain Man pays tribute to a way of life that went the way of hats made of felted beaver fur); Guns Of The West (Dropped during an 1875 shootout in Campo, Calif., this .43-caliber Whitney rolling-block rifle bears a bullet hole in hit walnut stock); Reviews (Must-read books and must-see movies about Hispanic outlaws, laymen and revolutionaries); Sold (This Wells Fargo ledger records 95 notorious train robberies and the bandits behind them) |
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| December 2010 |
Features - Pressing The Issue At Wounded Knee (In the lead-up to December 1890s tragic encounter on the Pine Ridge Reservation, many South Dakota newspapers called for the genocide of the Ghost-Dancing Lakota people); The Falsehoods Of Fetterman's Fight (The 1866 defeat is remembered for a Captain William Fetterman boast. But did he really make it?); Disaster At Burke Canyon (A great force lifted George Gibson out of bed and dropped him into a snowdrift some 20 feet from where his house once stood. A deadly avalanche had struck Mace, Idaho); Tascosa: Hell Town Of The Panhandle (Billy the Kid only sold stolen horses in "the hardest place on the frontier." but this Texas town recorded plenty of killings, including four in a single murderous March gunfight); Boone May: Bane Of The Badmen (The shotgun messenger was called "the most noted scout, detective, Indian fighter and shooting man of the Black Hills" and road agents on the road out of Deadwood had good reason to fear him) Departments - Editor's Letter; Letters; Roundup (Historian John Monnett ranks less-than-sterling Indian wars events in his Top Ten list, the Wild West History Association hands out its annual awards and the governor of New Mexico considers a pardon for Billy the Kid); Westerners (Riding double is nothing. These four horsekids are mounted on one steed); Interview (Candy Moulton usually interviews others for Wild West. This month the tireless writer/editor from Encampment, Wyoming, is the one being interviewed); Gunfighters And Lawmen (Samuel Breckinridge Smith became a respected citizen in Carlsbad, New Mexico, but he once rode as a Regulator with, you guessed it, Billy the Kid); Pioneers And Settlers (At the hopeless Fetterman Fight, Adolph Metzger emptied his seven-shot Spencer rifle and then desperately used his bugle as a club); Indian Life ("Indians are dancing in the snow and are wild...We need protection" cried agent Daniel Royer); Western Enterprise (Crowd-pleaser Buffalo Bill Cody was no good at handling the books, so Nate Salsbury handled his Wild West finances and logistics for two decades. Salsbury wanted credit for it all); Ghost Towns (Some imagination is needed to appreciate Schellbourne, Nevada, where the Pony Express once ran an all-too-active station); Collections (The romance and spirit of the mountain man era llives on at the 55-year-old Museum of the Fur Trade, just east of Chadron, Nebraska); Guns Of The West (The West was full of Colt Single Action Army copies and outright forgeries); Art Of The West (Tom Lea's 1936 masterpiece Pass of the North pays homage to the people who "made" El Paso); Reviews (Books and movies related to stagecoaches, plus recent reviews - yes, Custer is back in a book); Go West! (Captured by Edward S. Curtis in 1904, Canyon de Chelly still captivates visitors) |
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| June 2011 |
Features - Major Marcus Reno: Misrepresented 'Monster' (Plains Indians had soundly whipped the 7th Cavalry and killed its ironic commander Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Someone had to take the blame. Hello, Reno); Baseball In The West (Alexander Cartwright brought the game west during the California Gold Rush, and diamonds in the rough spread like tumbleweeds across the post-Civil War frontier); Idaho Bill: No Jail Could Hold Him (The imaginative outlaw made his mark - for better or worse - through repeated jailbreaks and his claim to have survived the Mountain Meadows Massacre); The Colorado Huntress And Her Wildlife (When her husband sought gold in the Rockies, small but spunky Martha Maxwell followed him and found fame as a skilled naturalist and taxidermist); Murder At The Palais Royal (At this fancy Forth Worth saloon all the ingredients were present for lead to fly - two sporting men, a simmering feud, gambling protocol, alcohol and hot words) Departments - Editor's Letter; Letters; Roundup (A Wild West article ropes a prestigious Wrangler Award, American Indian ballplayers (only one from Cleveland) fill the Top 10 list, an all-Wild West baseball team takes the field, and the Billy the Kid tintype is up for auction); Interview (John Koster stirred up a hornet's nest by suggesting a soldier survived Custer's Last Stand, and he's sticking to his guns - which may or may not be loaded); Westerners (The man on the horse is a "Starr" desperado, if he doesn't say so himself); Gunfighters And Lawmen (Time ran out for watchmaker Edward Frodsham, who cut a violent trail across the West); Pioneers And Settlers (What glory is there when one Medal of Honor recipient puts a shotgun to the belly of another Medal of Honor recipient and pulls the trigger?); Indian Life (Ute Chief Walker was among the frontier's busiest horse rustlers and slave traders, and when the Mormons objected, he went to war); Western Enterprise (The federally funded military road John Mullan built from Walla Walla on the Columbia River to Fort Benton on the upper Missouri had its ups and downs); Guns Of The West (Though Western movies rarely depict it, the cleaning of one's trusty gun was something every smart frontiersman did regularly); Art Of The West (Indianapolis' Eiteljorg Museum holds a premier collection of American Indian and Western art); Ghost Towns (Prospector John Kemple happened across silver in the sandstone of southwest Utah Territory, and the town of Silver Reef was born); Collections (The Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, Ariz., centers on the old territorial Governor's Mansion and the collected art and artifacts of none other than Sharlot Hall (1870-1943)); Reviews (Interesting books and movies about frontier women, as well as reviews of such new books as Edwin Sweeney's From Cochise To Geronimo); Go West! (Labor strikes out at Bisbee's ballpark) |
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| October 2013 |
Features - The Will Of McLaury (When Frank and Tom McLaury died in the gunfight near the O.K. Corral, their older brother Will came to Tombstone to bury them and seek justice against the Earps and Doc Holliday); Massacre At Dawn In Arizona Territory (Mexican and white residents of Tucson wanted to strike back at the Apache raiders of the region, so they recruited other Indians for a deadly surprise attack near Fort Grant). Clay Allison: 'Good-Natured Holy Terror' (In New Mexico Territory the shootist struck fear in enemies during the Colfax County War, but then he returned to Texas to peacefully raise cows and a family); The Great Diamond Hoax Of 1872 (Two prospectors showed up with uncut diamonds at San Francisco's Bank of California, intriguing investors and sparking a sparkling con game); Phantom Raiders On The Trinity (Comanches had long terrorized the Texas frontier, and now the self-styled "Lords of the Plains" swooped down on the Fort Worth Army post - or was it a tall tale?) Departments - Editor's Letter; Weider Reader; Letters; Roundup (Author Paul Lee Johnson considers the Top 10 places to go - not counting saloons - in 1881 Tombstone, and we present News of the West, including the Wild West History Association's awards and the best Western history books and novels of the past 60 years, according to the 60-year-old Western Writers of America); Interview (Paul Lee Johnson discusses his book The McLaurys In Tombstone, Arizona: An O.K. Corral Obituary); Westerners (Bodie Bill burned down his own Wild West town); Gunfighters And Lawmen (Although Ike Clanton may not have been born to run, he returned to his rustling ways and did some more running after surviving the street fight in Tombstone and Wyatt Earp's vendetta); Pioneers And Settlers (Wyatt Earp and Josie Marcus Earp spent nearly a half-century together out west, but were they ever officially married and did they have a wedding?); Western Enterprise (The pioneering newspapers in Arizona Terrotory included The Weekly Arizonian in Tupac and, later, the Tombstone Epitaph, founded by Wyatt Earp supporter John Clum); Art Of The West (California artist Victor Clyde Forsythe had a love of the peaceful desert and an interest in a loud showdown in Tombstone); Indian Life (Not your typical 19th-century American Indian, Eleazar Williams claimed to be the Lost Dauphin and heir to the French throne); Ghost Towns (Founded in 1882, the silver-mining town of Kingston, New Mexico, once hosted 22 saloons and some 7,000 thirsty citizens); Collections (In Taos, New Mixico, visitors can see the home in which Kit Carson lived with his family - now a museum dedicated to the frontiersman); Guns Of The West (The quick-draw action of 1950s TV Westerns, and the real West, inspired the sport of Fast Draw, which led to Cowboy Action Shooting); Reviews (Author Paul Lee Johnson recalls books and movies about Tombstone, with the McLaurys in mind. Plus reviews of another Wyatt Earp biography, a Texas Ranger profile, a tale about the Great Diamond Hoax, a Sugarfoot DVD and a gunslinger game); Go West! (Wyoming's Grand Tetons soar sky high) |
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| February 2014 |
Features - Mather To Nixon: 'You Have Lived Long Enough' (A Dodge City election and saloon war created bad blood between "Mysterious Dave" Mather and rival Tom Nixon, and the violence that followed was no mystery); Disorder In The Court: 'The Lamentable Occurence' (A judge said those words in Prescott, Arizona Territory, after a water rights dispute between neighbors erupted into a bloody courtroom drama); Pat Garrett's Writing Pat Emerson Hough (In 1902 the Western writer went to New Mexico Territory, visited Lincoln County historic sites and befriended the man who shot Billy the Kid and now wanted that story told...again); Badman Of The Oilfields (Hot-tempered Joe Dye didn't find gold in California, but he did find oil and a pack of trouble before paying the ultimate price for his recklessness); Reports Of His Lynching Were Greatly Exaggerated (Careless reporting has prompted false news stories, such as the 1883 howler about a necktie party and a mob that threw Mack Maarsden for a loop) Departments - Editor's Letter; Weider Reader; Letters; Roundup (Writer William B. Secrest lists 10 reasons why he believes frontier California personifies the Wild West, outlaw Cole Younger tells why he told his own story, plus auction results, a purported photograph of Luke Short and Eric Weider in action at Helidorado); Interview (Author Malcolm J. Rohrbough shares surprising revelations about the French connection to the California Gold Rush); Westerners (Texas range historian J. Evetts Haley leads his mount to water after a cow takes a drink); Indian Life (In the high-risk calling of a medicine man, success was nothing to sneeze at, but failure might incur the vengeful wrath of relatives); Pioneers And Settlers (Multitalented geologist Clarence King tried to solve some of Earth's mysteries, but he left a few of his own); Art Of The West (When you see the hungry cowboys and chuck wagon in Charlie Dye's painting Come and Get It!, that's exactly what you want to do); Gunfighters And Lawmen (Johnny Boyett gunned down Wyatt Earp - not a nice way to treat an old acquaintance); Western Enterprise (After two shooting matches against Buffalo Bill Cosy, Englishman Evelyn Booth partnered with the great showman for a time); Ghost Towns (Rich Hill, a mountain in Arizona Territory's Weaver District No. 2, promised gold nuggets "the size of potatoes"); Collections (Deadwood's Days of '76 Museum has opened a new building to further showcase the history of the rip-roaring Black Hills); Guns Of The west (Among the oddest 19th-Century handguns used in the West was James Reid's "My Friend" knuckleduster pepperbox); Reviews (Author and former law officer R. Michael Wilson considers interesting books and movies about lynchings in the Old West. Plus reviews of recent books, including one about Colorado's bloody Espinosas, arguably the Wild West's most notorious serial killers); Go West! (The Chilkoot Trail was no easy path to riches) |
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| April 2014 |
Features - Chief Joseph's Guiding Principle (The Nez Pierce leader is famed for vowing, "I will fight no more forever" after his surrender in Montana Territory in 1877, but he lived by his words, "Never sell the bones of your father and your mother"); Stagecoach To Yosemite (Highwaymen stopped one stage headed for California's Yosemite Valley, but finding no express box aboard, they stopped a second stage before the dust cleared); The Capture Of New Mexico's Rustler King (His leadership skills set apart crime boss John Kinney from other outlaws, yet he was undone by his failure to pay import duties on smuggled cattle); Chambers Of Horrors (William "Persimmon Bill" Chambers was a horse thief and ruthless murderer who in 1876 made life miserable for travelers on the Black Hills Road); Fort Dilts And Fanny's Bid For Freedom (As besieged emigrants holed up in primitive earthworks on the prairie, the surrounding Sioux sent them a message scribbled by a white captive) Departments - Editor's Letter; Weider Reader; Letters; Roundup ("No sale" was the order of the day when guns reportadly owned by Jesse James and Wild Bill Hickok came up for auction. Author Candy Moulton notes 10 great places to visit on the Nez Pierce Trail. Sam Houston calls for "cool, deliberate vengeance" for victims at the Alamo and Goliad. Jim Younger scrawls his last words); Interview (New Mexico journalist Sherry Robinson has long listened to Apache voices and now discusses her book on the history of the underappreciated Lipans); Westerners (Three men have strapped on Colt revolvers, while a fourth wears a sash); Indian Life (Lipan Apache scout Johnson helped Colonel Ranald Mackenzie track down renegade Comanches and Kiowas during the Red River War); Pioneers And Settlers (Seth Eastman, once married to an Indian woman, mostly rendered respectful paintings of Indians, but he is also the artist who painted Death Whoop); Gunfighters And Lawmen (In 1880's Colorado Sheriff "Doc" Shores called Telluride Marshal Jim Clark "a real fighter with a gun or any other way"); Western Enterprise (While manager of the Gold King mine near Telluride, Cola., in 1889, L. L. Nunn made good use of a controversial new technology); Art Of The West (Inspired by early Navajo jewelry, Santa Fe silversmith Dennis Hogan has forged his own naja (inverted crescent) designs); Ghost Towns (John O. Meusebach built a general store and lived in Loyal Valley, Texas for almost 30 years, but its best known citizen was former Indian captive Herman Lehmann); Collections (Mountain men, miners, outlaws and lawmen - they all get their due at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River, Wy); Guns Of The West (E. Remington & Sons' powerful double-barreled derringer proved a most popular concealable self-defense weapon for more than 60 years); Reviews (Candy Moulton looks at books about Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces, as well as several on-screen presentations, plus reviews of recent books and a DVD review of the third season of Maverick); Go West! (The Durango & Silverton rides high in Colorado) |
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