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June 2016

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Donald and Kiefer Sutherland

Sutherland’s Ride Together

Henry C. Parke
photo of Art Acord

Silent Film Actors were Tough

Marshall Trimble
Illustration by Bob Boze Bell

Digging Billy the Kid

Bob Boze Bell
Marshall Trimble

How do today’s cowboy boots compare to those of the Old West?

Marshall Trimble
Jack DeMattos' Article in True West Magazine

A True West Writer’s 40-Year Journey

Jack DeMattos
Charlie Meyer

Judge Charlie Meyer

Marshall Trimble
Picture of a Cowboy Cook

Virginia Chow-Chow

Jana Bommersbach
Illustration by Bob Boze Bell

A Blast at the Tucson Train Station

Bob Boze Bell
Phil Spangenburger and horse Nevada at Shooting Competition

A Good Gun and a Trusty Horse

Phil Spangenberger
Photo of Calamity Jane

A Few Quotations We Shouldn’t Forget

Jana Bommersbach
Photo of Myles Keogh

A Song for the Good Times

Mark Boardman
Still of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant

The Revenant Takes Home Oscars

TW Editors
photo of Beaver

The Fur Trade In the American West

Marshall Trimble
Buffalo Bill Cody's Cowboy Band

Buffalo Bill’s Cowboy Band

Mark Boardman
"The Death of Delgado" book cover

Tales of the West

Michael Zimmer
Curly Bill

Curly Bill Laughs at His Fate

Bob Boze Bell
Illustration of Frank Hamer by Bob Boze Bell

Sweetwater Shoot-Out

Bob Boze Bell
Jonathan Goldsmith

The Most Interesting Man in the World

Mark Boardman
Photo of Abbie Keith

She Knew Because She’d Lived the Life

Jana Bommersbach
Marshall Trimble

What is a soogan?

Marshall Trimble
Illustration of Desert Landscape

On the Old Gila Trail

Johnny D. Boggs

Ben Thompson Lawman

Marshall Trimble
Illustration by Bob Boze Bell

Cold-Blooded Roommates

Bob Boze Bell
Woman Cooking in a 19th Century stove

Ranges on the Range

Sherry Monahan
Harper's Weekly Illustration

Did Remington Capture Clanton’s Last Breath?

Paul Cool
Frank Reno

Reno Gang’s Disappearing Money

Mark Boardman
Map of the Gadsden Purchase

Arizona’s Quirky Diagonal Border

Marshall Trimble
Illustration by Bob Boze Bell

Remington in Arizona

Bob Boze Bell
John Boessenecker's Book

An Epic Life of a Lawman

Allen Barra
Federal Writers Project Poster

Secrets from the Horse’s Mouth

Jana Bommersbach
Carol Wright Crigger

Northwestern Mystery Author Shares Favorite Reads

Carol Wright Crigger
Joe Hardin

Hangin’ Time

Mark Boardman
desert landscape

How Far Would You Walk to Get Home?

Jana Bommersbach
Marshall Trimble

Can you shed some light on a photo of Red Cloud’s wife in a cabin featuring a Japanese katana sword on the wall?

Marshall Trimble
Henry Wheeler

Harry Wheeler and the Rock Fight Gunfight

Marshall Trimble
Illustration by Bob Boze Bell

30-Love at Fort Apache

Bob Boze Bell
Lucia St. Clair Robson

Lucia St. Clair Robson

Lucia St. Clair Robson
Sam Lone Bear

Lakota Globetrotter

Steve Friesen
Tom O'Day

“Vaulted” in Belle Fourche

Mark Boardman
Rachel Emma Allen Berry

The Many Houses of Rachel Emma Allen Berry

Jana Bommersbach
the legend of russian bill book

The Legend of Russian Bill

Marshall Trimble
Gary Cooper in High Noon

The Best Western Movie Gunfights

Marshall Trimble
Illustration by Bob Boze Bell

Two-Gun Men

Bob Boze Bell
Illustration of Frank Hamer by Bob Boze Bell

The Rise of the Toughest Texas Ranger

John Boessenecker
Kate and sister Wilma

She Was More Than a Big Nose

Jana Bommersbach
Gun

Wyatt Earp’s Pistol

Marshall Trimble
Jesse james

Jesse James’ First Kill

Mark Boardman
Leonardo Dicaprio in The Revenant

13 Major Facts The Revenant Got Wrong

Bruce Bradley
Illustration of Crook by BBB

Beyond the Border with Crook

Bob Boze Bell
Elmer McCurdy

A Well-Traveled Corpse

Jana Bommersbach
Courthouse Plaza, Prescott, AZ

Mile-High Getaway

Leo W. Banks
Bronco Billy

Bronco Billy

Marshall Trimble
Blood on the Marias -book cover

Tragedy on the Montana Frontier

Jefferson Glass
Illustration of Pinetop by BBB

The Town Named for a Hairdo

Bob Boze Bell
Hanging

Wave of Violence

Mark Boardman
Terror of Tiny Town cast

An Unusual Hero

Mark Boardman
Mollhausen's Sketch of the Grand Canyon

J.C. Ives Visits the Grand Canyon

Marshall Trimble

What is your opinion of John Wesley Hardin?

Marshall Trimble
Comancheros Poster

Curtain Close with The Comancheros

Mark Boardman
BBB Illustration

Exiled Into Celebrity

Bob Boze Bell
May Day Pole

May was Always a Good Month in the Old West

Jana Bommersbach
Charles Russel painting of Indian with Bow

Indian with Bow Hits Mark

Meghan Saar
Rustlers Nate Champion and his brother Dudley Champion

Requiem of the Rustlers

Bill Markley
Bud Ledbetter

Bud Ledbetter, The Fourth Guardsman

Marshall Trimble
art by Bob Boze Bell

Blazing Pols

Bob Boze Bell
Deadwood, SD re-enactment

Deadwood, South Dakota: Entertaining Guests Since 1876

Deadwood, South Dakota
Saloon

Ruthless Joe Sparrow

Rhiannon Deremo
Tumacacori Mission Remains 1908

Jesus Went West, Too

Jana Bommersbach
"The Apache Wars" book by Paul Andrew Hutton

The Wind and the Darkness

Stuart Rosebrook
Depiction of Dealer with Card

Show Low vs. a Straight Flush

Bob Boze Bell
Larry Hazen

Brazen Hazen

Mark Boardman
Pioneer Family Eating by the Wagon

Eating on the Move

Jana Bommersbach
Tri Robinson with wife Nanxy at the reburial site in Cody, WY

Freedom from the Freeway

Jana Bommersbach
Katie Benders 1872 advertisement as a healer

Dinner at the Devil’s Inn

Terry A. Del Bene
Strother Martin

A Trifecta of Westerns

Mark Boardman
Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy

Marshall Trimble
Ask The Marshall

What was the “Badger Game?

Marshall Trimble
Evelyn Cameron

Treasures from the Basement

Jana Bommersbach
Woman on a Horse

The Culture Bearers

Marshall Trimble
Depiction of Jack Mellon

The Wizard of the Colorado River

Bob Boze Bell