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April 2006

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Features

king-fisher

A Blood-Stained Memento

Robert G. McCubbin
Tothepoint

I’ve Not Been Everywhere, Man.

Bob Boze Bell
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Nothing Left but Dust

William B. Secrest, Jr.
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Colorado’s Pioneer Cemeteries

Linda Wommack
william_hart_and_charlie

Blown Out of Bed

Meghan Saar
Albuquerque

A Quick 300 Years

Melody Groves

Western Books & Movies

john wayne as ethan in the searchers

The Searchers at 50

Yardena Rand
taos-trappers

THE TAOS TRAPPERS: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846

Chuck Lewis
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From 9.11 to the Alamo

Candy Moulton
golden-corridor

The Golden Corridor

Robert Ray
contemporary-western-design

CONTEMPORARY WESTERN DESIGN

Meghan Saar
colorado-japanese-americans

COLORADO’S JAPANESE AMERICANS: FROM 1886 TO THE PRESENT

Linda Wommack
mormon-resistance

MORMON RESISTANCE

Richard H. Dillon
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GUNS OF THE WILD WEST

Phil Spangenberger
outlaw-tales-of-colorado

OUTLAW TALES OF COLORADO

Mark Boardman
dakota

DAKOTA

William Garwood
outlaws-brat

OUTLAW’S BRAT

Linda Wommack
brush-county

Brush Country

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza

More In This Issue

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Maze Creek Studio

Meghan Saar
Luisa_ronstadt_espinel

The First Ronstadt Superstar

Jana Bommersbach
r-w-hampton

I Believe

Corinne Brown

I read somewhere that no legal agency ever put out wanted posters that stated, “Dead or Alive.” What’s the truth?

Marshall Trimble
norman-and-nancy-blake

BACK HOME IN SULPHUR SPRINGS

Mark Boardman
GUN_colton-prepares

A Shoot-’em-up for Gamers

Meghan Saar
bobby-bare

The Moon was Blue

Corinne Brown
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En Plein Air

Meghan Saar
cherryholmes

CHERRYHOLMES

Sandy Whiting
crossing_the_pecos

No Horsin’ Around on Billy’s Last Ride

Johnny D. Boggs
the-chapmans

Simple Man

Mark Boardman
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Clark on the Yellowstone

Candy Moulton
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Wild West WOW!

Greg Nevitt
TX_heritageTrails

Goliad, Texas

TW Editors
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HONEYCOMB

Sandy Whiting
SFTH

Frontier Army’s First Pick

Phil Spangenberger
burrito-deluxe

THE WHOLE ENCHILADA

Mark Boardman
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Confessions of a Ghost Town Maniac

Jana Bommersbach

What do you consider to be the most interesting events of the Old West?

Marshall Trimble

Is the Maxwell building or ranch still standing where Billy the Kid was shot?

Marshall Trimble

How did the Wyoming horse Steamboat get his name?

Marshall Trimble

If the Bird Cage Theatre opened on Christmas day 1881, why does the movie Tombstone show characters at the Bird Cage prior to the October 1881 gunfight?

Marshall Trimble

What did drifting cowboys carry with them when they traveled?

Marshall Trimble

A museum in Jerome, Arizona, had a photograph of Pancho Villa standing by some mules pulling a water wagon. Did he really deliver water to the Jerome mines?

Marshall Trimble
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Fillmore & Western Railway

Meghan Saar