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Contents: 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 horse kids 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 lives 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)
Issue: December 2010
Condition: Very Good