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March 2008

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Features

Borax is still a money-maker today, and it may someday fuel your car!

The 20-Mule Team’s Miracle Mineral

Linda McMaken

Western Books & Movies

There Will Be Oscars

Henry Cabot Beck
Edited by Eric A. Eliason

The J. Golden Kimball Stories (Fiction)

William Garwood
By Kathleen P. Chamberlain

Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Nonfiction)

Jason Strykowski

The Road to McCarthy

Henry Cabot Beck
By Johnny D. Boggs

Walk Proud, Stand Tall (Fiction)

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
By Dane Coolidge

Rider of Death Valley (Fiction)

William Garwood
By Robert Roripaugh

The Legend of Billy Jenks and Other Wyoming Stories (Fiction)

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
By Ann Scarlett Daily and Michael Paglia

Landscapes of Colorado (Nonfiction)

Linda Wommack
By Keith Heyer Meldahl

Hard Road West (Nonfiction)

Richard H. Dillon
By Tony Russell

Country Music Originals (Nonfiction)

Chuck Lewis
By Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll

Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway (Nonfiction)

Linda Wommack
by Frederick H. Swanson

Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons (Nonfiction)

Richard H. Dillon
By Robert K. DeArment

Deadly Dozen: Vol. II (Nonfiction)

Chuck Lewis

The Essential John Ford Collection

Henry Cabot Beck

Rawhide: The Second Season, Vol. II

Henry Cabot Beck
By Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed

Adventures in the West

Fran Strykowski

More In This Issue

Jimmy Stewart, card-playing desert cowboys and a 20-mule team.

Death Valley 49ers Centennial

TW Editors
Why you should care, and what you can do to save it.

Who Killed the Train?

Jason Strykowski
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Clean Shots

Phil Spangenberger
...and not me.

Why Does Everyone Love Louis…

Johnny D. Boggs
President Arthur's journey to Yellowstone featured in an impressive photograph auction.

Trains, Mules and Horses

Meghan Saar
A Hollywood Invention?

Low Slung Guns

Bob Boze Bell
Scurvy on the frontier.

Not Just a Sea Plague

Dr. Jim Kornberg
Nevada and Jim Clark team up to save the Virginia & Truckee.

Crookedest Railroad Turns New Bend

Jana Bommersbach
One heck of a roller-coaster ride.

Cowhorse Tango

Darley Newman

Hampton Sides

Hampton Sides

Trinidad, Colorado

Meghan Saar
Historic depots of the West.

Grand Stations

TW Editors
Candy's hair-brained idea to keep her family history intact.

Saving Grandma’s Cabin

Candy Moulton

Preservation: The Little Railroad that Might

Mark Boardman