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Features

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The Billy Buff War

Leo W. Banks
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Oklahoma’s 101 Ranch

Candy Moulton
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Reno Gang Miffed by Train Takeover

Mark Boardman
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Buffalo Bill’s Columbus Adventure

Shelley Frear
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The West’s Greatest Chiefs

Robert G. McCubbin
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Buffalo Bill’s Columbus Adventure

Shelley Frear

Western Books & Movies

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Rock Art Along the Way

Chuck Lewis
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Albuquerque in Our Time

Richard H. Dillon
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Albuquerque Remembered

Richard H. Dillon
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Wanted: Undead or Alive

Henry Cabot Beck

Desperadoes

Henry Cabot Beck
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Redemption

Henry Cabot Beck
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Curse of the Sacred Mountain

Robert McElroy
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“What Fresh Hell is This?”

Henry Cabot Beck
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Nickel-Plated Dream (Fiction)

William Garwood
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Sanctuary Ranch (Fiction)

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
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God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West (Nonfiction)

Cynthia Green
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The Oatman Massacre (Nonfiction)

Cynthia Green
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The Doctor Wore Petticoats (Nonfiction)

Linda Wommack
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The Desert Southwest (Nonfiction)

Meghan Saar
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The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion (Fiction)

William Garwood
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Cherokee Rose (Fiction)

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
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An Untraditional, Quirky Western

Johnny D. Boggs
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Military Chronicler

Candy Moulton

More In This Issue

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I read somewhere that Wyatt Earp married a Jewish woman. Did he ever convert to Judaism?

Marshall Trimble
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Can you tell me the name of the movie starring Clint Walker as Killer Caine? He played an old-time gunman who went to prison for killing a man; when he was released, he was much changed.

Marshall Trimble

Can you describe a typical day in the life of a person traveling via covered wagon to Oregon or California from Missouri?

Marshall Trimble

Was a complete version of George W. Parsons’ diary of his time in Tombstone ever published? I think it would make a great read.

Marshall Trimble
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Lonesome Dove Guest Ranch

Meghan Saar
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Dudes and Dudettes Inspire!

Bob Boze Bell
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The Best Bad Things

Meghan Saar
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Dude! Where’s My Ranch?

Mark Boardman
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From Homesteaders to Wolfers

Jana Bommersbach
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Silver City, New Mexico

TW Editors
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The Underdogs

Chris Wienk
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Passin’ Through Louis L’Amour Land

Johnny D. Boggs

Who was Arizona’s first famous show biz personality?

Marshall Trimble

Is there any truth to the story about cowboys who dug up a corpse and poured whiskey down his throat?

Marshall Trimble
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Between The Two

Sandy Whiting
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Eleven Stories

Chris Wienk
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Saturday Matinee

Mark Boardman
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Hardin’s Hardware

Phil Spangenberger
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The Turquoise Trail

Jane C. Bischoff
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Living With the Land

Sandy Whiting
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Moonlight and Skies

Mark Boardman