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April 2007
Features
Birth of a State
Valerie Haynes
Dreamscape Desperado
Paul Andrew Hutton
A Tale of Two Governors…
Jason Strykowski
Robbing the Yankees
John Koblas
Those Aren’t Russian Cossacks!
Irakli Makharadze
Western Books & Movies
Broken Trail Spin-Offs
Henry Cabot Beck
Moses Taite’s War
Henry Cabot Beck
An Endless Attraction to Billy
Allen Barra
From Hondo to Big Ike
Candy Moulton
Vengeance Moon
William Garwood
On Location!
TW Editors
Great Train Robberies of the Old West
Linda Wommack
Spreading the Word
Meghan Saar
Following the Royal Road
Cynthia Green
Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town
Linda Wommack
Lone Star Lawman
Richard H. Dillon
BALLOTS AND BULLETS: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
Chuck Lewis
The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
Johnny D. Boggs
Bandidas
Henry Cabot Beck
Give Me Mountains For My Horses
Chuck Lewis
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Richard H. Dillon
Sunset Trail
William Garwood
Under the Sunset Rim
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
Texas Showdown
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
The Train Man
Mark Boardman
Heaven is a Long Way Off
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
Camino del Norte
Richard H. Dillon
Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve
Linda Wommack
From Lead Mines to Gold Fields
Richard H. Dillon
A Time for Peace: Fort Lewis, Colorado, 1878-1891
Linda Wommack
The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns
Cynthia Green
Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier
Chuck Lewis
Rock Hudson Screen Legend Collection
Henry Cabot Beck
Legendary Outlaws
Henry Cabot Beck
Gunsmoke: The Director’s Collection
Henry Cabot Beck
Devil’s Gate
Chuck Lewis
New Mexico Past and Future
Cynthia Green
The Hart Brand
William Garwood
The Tobermory Manuscript
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’amor: The Adventure Stories
William Garwood
More In This Issue
Tracking the Great Bear
Candy Moulton
One Man With Courage Makes A Majority
Bob Boze Bell
No Compromise with War
Jana Bommersbach
Ugly Ducklings of Frontier Six-shooters
Phil Spangenberger
Preservation: Roll Along, Wagon Train
TW Editors
Sacking Lawrence
Johnny D. Boggs
Queen of Country Swing’s Tough Mamas
Bob Boze Bell
A Gun Exchanged for Billy the Kid’s Mare
Meghan Saar
A Man That Won’t Bend
Mark Boardman
Trailing the First Indian Person
Johnny D. Boggs
St. Joseph, MO
TW Editors
Stories Behind the Song
Bethany Braley
ATM Update: Hunnewell, KS
Marshall Trimble
What can you tell me about Cimarron, New Mexico?
Marshall Trimble
If John Wayne was granted deferment from military service during WWII because he had a large family, wouldn’t this make him a draft dodger?
Marshall Trimble
What can you tell me about hat cords in the frontier military?
Marshall Trimble
What pistol did Wild Bill Hickok favor?
Marshall Trimble
Trailing the First Indian Person
Johnny D. Boggs
“Western Movie” Night … at the Museum
TW Editors
Mellonsfolly’s Wild West
Meghan Saar
A Man That Won’t Bend
Mark Boardman
Madonna of the Western Trails
Cindy Thomson
I’m making models of authentic Western homes/ranches. Can you tell me more about the use of glass in the Old West?
Marshall Trimble
How did the term “cowpoke” come about?
Marshall Trimble
Wickenburg, Arizona
TW Editors
Adair Before They Die
Bob Boze Bell
Railroad’s First Lady
Jana Bommersbach
Have Gun, Safe for Travel?
Phil Spangenberger
Whiskey-Runnin’ Whoop-Up Trail
Candy Moulton
Preservation: Depot Heroes
TW Editors
Tom Horn Hits the Auction Block
Meghan Saar
Is 1954’s Dawn at Socorro based on a true story?
Marshall Trimble
What shirts were popular in the Old West?
Marshall Trimble
Was Wyatt Earp as good a hero as we have been led to believe? I’ve read he was involved in a “gold brick” swindle. Can you tell me more about that scam?
Marshall Trimble
A family Bible belonging to the sister of Brushy Bill, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, listed his birth year as 1879. If this is true, then Brushy Bill couldn’t possibly be Billy the Kid, right?
Marshall Trimble
