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August 2007
Features
Rifle Packin’ in the Old West
Phil Spangenberger
Jerkwater Towns
Bob Boze Bell
The Rookie Rancher
Mark Boardman
Cowboy Mounted Shooting
Phil Spangenberger
Western Books & Movies
Vote Longmire for Sheriff
Candy Moulton
Not So Lonesome
Allen Barra
The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76
Linda Wommack
Alex Swan and the Swan Companies
Chuck Lewis
Passion and Principle
Richard H. Dillon
Raven Springs
William Garwood
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Henry Cabot Beck
DEADWOOD: The complete Third Season
Henry Cabot Beck
To Tame A Land
William Garwood
Writing the Wicked West
Candy Moulton
The Year the Stars Fell
Cynthia Green
California Badmen
Richard H. Dillon
The Secret War For Texas
Chuck Lewis
The Look of the Old West
Linda Wommack
The Great Houses of Chaco
Cynthia Green
A Fistful of DVDs
Henry Cabot Beck
Courting Trouble
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
The Vengeance Brand
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
WAYNE’S WORLD
Henry Cabot Beck
Gary Cooper MGM Movie Legends Collection
Henry Cabot Beck
Best Reads (And They Aren’t All Westerns)
TW Editors
A Girl is a Gun
Henry Cabot Beck
Seraphim Falls
Henry Cabot Beck
A People at War
Richard H. Dillon
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
Richard H. Dillon
A Ranger War & Billy the Kid
Candy Moulton
Northfield
William Garwood
People of the Nightland
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
Whips of the West
Cynthia Green
Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger
Chuck Lewis
The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska
Linda Wommack
Wild Ride
Cynthia Green
Tìo Cowboy
Chuck Lewis
Storytelling in Yellowstone
Linda Wommack
Rio Bravo Still Sings
Henry Cabot Beck
Hunt Down
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
On the Wrong Track
William Garwood
More In This Issue
Preservation: Saving the Sheriff
TW Editors
On Oklahoma’s Centennial Trail
Johnny D. Boggs
The Battle of Big Dry Wash
Bob Boze Bell
Who Killed Col. Fountain?
Mark Boardman
Remembering Mountain Meadows
Johnny D. Boggs
The Bad Man from Bodie
Michael Piatt
Music That Ain’t Country (Let Alone Western)
Johnny D. Boggs
Fort Stanton’s Angel
Jana Bommersbach
Virginia City, Montana
Henry Cabot Beck
I can’t locate a copy of Richard O’Connor’s Bat Masterson book, listed in the credits of the TV series starring Gene Barry. Is there another biography I can buy?
Marshall Trimble
My SASS friends and I disagree. I say chinks were not worn by working cowboys in the 1890s. I believe they were show wear for riders during the late 1940s. Can you settle this?
Marshall Trimble
True West calls the Tombstone battle the “Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral,” while Earp historian Allen Barra calls it the “Street Fight in Tombstone.” How did people in the 19th century refer to it?
Marshall Trimble
Most Hollywood movies end with the good guys winning and the bad guys in jail or dead. How true is that to the Old West?
Marshall Trimble
Rock Island’s Rare Rig
Meghan Saar
In the Old West, did men carrying six-shooters leave one chamber empty as a safety measure?
Marshall Trimble
UPDATES: The Lone Bandit and Shalako
Marshall Trimble
The Beecher’s Island Boys
Johnny D. Boggs
A Tragic End to a Classic Cowgirl
Jana Bommersbach
Civil War in the West
Johnny D. Boggs
Preservation: Song Of Praise
TW Editors
Silver City Shoot-Out
Bob Boze Bell
Rifle Packin’ in the Old West
Phil Spangenberger
The Beecher’s Island Boys
Johnny D. Boggs
Mining Vs. Ranching
Johnny D. Boggs
Casa de Adobe
Meghan Saar
In 1969’s Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, are the characters Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore based on real people?
Marshall Trimble
Did cowboys in the Old West really wear that much clothes, even on sunny days?
Marshall Trimble
Where is Wyatt Earp’s second “wife,” Mattie Blaylock, buried?
Marshall Trimble
What’s the difference between an Old West marshal and a sheriff?
Marshall Trimble
Why do so many Westerns show bacon and beans as the campfire meal? And how did the characters cook the beans so fast?
Marshall Trimble
Did Bat Masterson actually have to use a cane after being shot by Sgt. Melvin King in 1876, or is this just part of the legend?
Marshall Trimble
Cheyenne, Wyoming
TW Editors
