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Contents: 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)
Issue: February 2008
Condition: Very Good