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Contents: Mather To Nixon: ‘You Have Lived Long Enough’ (A Dodge City election and saloon war created bad blood between “Mysterious Dave” Mather and rival Tom Nixon, and the violence that followed was no mystery); Disorder In The Court: ‘The Lamentable Occurence’ (A judge said those words in Prescott, Arizona Territory, after a water rights dispute between neighbors erupted into a bloody courtroom drama); Pat Garrett’s Writing Pat Emerson Hough (In 1902 the Western writer went to New Mexico Territory, visited Lincoln County historic sites and befriended the man who shot Billy the Kid and now wanted that story told…again); Badman Of The Oilfields (Hot-tempered Joe Dye didn’t find gold in California, but he did find oil and a pack of trouble before paying the ultimate price for his recklessness); Reports Of His Lynching Were Greatly Exaggerated (Careless reporting has prompted false news stories, such as the 1883 howler about a necktie party and a mob that threw Mack Maarsden for a loop) Departments – Editor’s Letter; Weider Reader; Letters; Roundup (Writer William B. Secrest lists 10 reasons why he believes frontier California personifies the Wild West, outlaw Cole Younger tells why he told his own story, plus auction results, a purported photograph of Luke Short and Eric Weider in action at Helidorado); Interview (Author Malcolm J. Rohrbough shares surprising revelations about the French connection to the California Gold Rush); Westerners (Texas range historian J. Evetts Haley leads his mount to water after a cow takes a drink); Indian Life (In the high-risk calling of a medicine man, success was nothing to sneeze at, but failure might incur the vengeful wrath of relatives); Pioneers And Settlers (Multitalented geologist Clarence King tried to solve some of Earth’s mysteries, but he left a few of his own); Art Of The West (When you see the hungry cowboys and chuck wagon in Charlie Dye’s painting Come and Get It!, that’s exactly what you want to do); Gunfighters And Lawmen (Johnny Boyett gunned down Wyatt Earp – not a nice way to treat an old acquaintance); Western Enterprise (After two shooting matches against Buffalo Bill Cosy, Englishman Evelyn Booth partnered with the great showman for a time); Ghost Towns (Rich Hill, a mountain in Arizona Territory’s Weaver District No. 2, promised gold nuggets “the size of potatoes”); Collections (Deadwood’s Days of ’76 Museum has opened a new building to further showcase the history of the rip-roaring Black Hills); Guns Of The west (Among the oddest 19th-Century handguns used in the West was James Reid’s “My Friend” knuckleduster pepperbox); Reviews (Author and former law officer R. Michael Wilson considers interesting books and movies about lynching in the Old West. Plus reviews of recent books, including one about Colorado’s bloody Espinosas, arguably the Wild West’s most notorious serial killers); Go West! (The Chilkoot Trail was no easy path to riches)
Issue: February 2014
Condition: Very Good