Description
Contents: Blazer’s Mill: The Gunfight Revisited (Photographic evidence provides new insight on the fight between Billy the Kid’s Regulators and Buckshot Roberts); Kit Carson Takes A Wife (Kit Carson challenges a mountain of a mountain man for the hand of an Indian maiden); The California Adventures Of Victoria & Albert (The first elephants to visit California since the Pleistocene Age delight Gold Rush era audiences); Wide-Eyed World: M.D. Houghton’s Wyoming Sketches (Merrit Dana Houghton drew pen and ink sketches with such careful attention to detail that they can still be mistaken for photographs of Wyoming’s past); Fetterman – Was He A Scapegoat? (On December 21, 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman and eighty men disappeared from the view of Fort Phil Kearny. Within an hour the entire force was dead. Was the young officer at fault?); The Real West: An Interview With Michael Wallis (Author Michael Wallis sits down with Old West to discuss his new book, the 101 Ranch and history in general); The Last Ride (Fort Stambaugh is a bleak reminder of an enthusiastic young lieutenant from Ohio who died a hard death and became the namesake of a nearly forgotten fort) Departments – Editor’s Notebook; Letter Rip; Smith’s West; Going Western; Book Roundup; Gunsmith; Wild Old Days
Issue: Fall 1999
Condition: Very Good