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Contents: 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 reportedly 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)
Issue: April 2014
Condition: Very Good