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Contents: 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, like 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)
Issue: April 2009
Condition: Very Good