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April 2012

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Features

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The Best Texas Rangers Photos, Ever

Bob Alexander

Western Books & Movies

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Route 66: Lost & Found

Allison Carlton
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Cleaving an Unknown World

Lucky Bonner
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The Great Plains Guide to Custer

Steve Alexander
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Little Big Man

Henry Cabot Beck
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Train Keeps A’Rollin’

Henry Cabot Beck

More In This Issue

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Traveling Through History

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Wild Bunch Territory

Larry Clarkson
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Tracking the Texas Rangers

David George
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Gold Coast’s Badmen

John Boessenecker
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Doc Holliday Slept Here

Tom “Dr. Colorado” Noel
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Custer & Cody Country

Candy Moulton
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Cathouse Melee

Bob Boze Bell
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Cowboys & Cowtowns

Orin Friesen
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April 2012 Events

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In the Nov/Dec. 2011 issue, I told readers a possible reason why Geronimo was holding two sticks was so he could steady the gun while firing. Reader David West has shared another explanation:

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Who was the man Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed in Abilene, Kansas?

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Why did some vaquero saddles have dinner plate-type saddle horns?

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How successful were traveling entertainers in the Old West?

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The John Wayne Memorabilia exhibit in Los Angeles featured his costume trousers with sewed-on belt loops. Aren’t belt loops an early 20th-century development?

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Did Arizona ever list train robbery as a capital offense?

Marshall Trimble
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John Fusco

John Fusco
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10 for 10: Bismarck, ND

Tracy Potter
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Supersized in San Antonio

Jana Bommersbach
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Unsinkable Margaret Brown

Mark Boardman
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Snake River Salmon

Sherry Monahan
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Paramount’s Golden Boy

Johnny D. Boggs
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Gary Ernest Smith

Allison Carlton
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Following Sibley’s Confederate Invasion

Johnny D. Boggs
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Head Over Heels

G. Daniel DeWeese
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Viva Villa!

Meghan Saar
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Hardin’s Deadly Tools

Phil Spangenberger