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November/December 2007

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Features

Photographs captured on his odyssey are the heart of a new Autry exhibit.

Charles Lummis’s Coast to Coast Journey

Jason Strykowski
The outlaw buys it during a visit to the store.

Will Carver Checks Out

Mark Boardman

Western Books & Movies

cowboyscoffins

Cowboys and Coffin Makers

Susan Sperry
greatnorthernmn

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

Henry Cabot Beck
sanjacinto

Journey to San Jacinto

Fran Strykowski
billythekid

Billy the Kid

Fran Strykowski
risingfawn

Rising Fawn and the Fire Mystery

Lee Culver
paintthewind

Paint the Wind

Susan Sperry
wildwest

The Wild West Pop-Up Book

Fran Strykowski
frogbringsrain

Frog Brings Rain

Serina Culleton
thunderrose

Thunder Rose

Lee Culver
coyotewhoswallowed

There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea

Serina Culleton
philfrankcover

What They Got Right

Bob Boze Bell
letters

Letters From the Corrugated Castle

Rae Schindler
westerns

The Curse of Idolatry

Henry Cabot Beck
firstfilmssamuel

The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Henry Cabot Beck

A Hex Upon You

Henry Cabot Beck

Searchers 2.0

Henry Cabot Beck
fordatfox

Ford at Fox at Last

Henry Cabot Beck
cowgirlkate

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa

Angela Guidi

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

Henry Cabot Beck
cavecreekkid

The Cave Creek Kid

Angela Guidi

More In This Issue

Wood Hite vs. Dick Liddil

Little by Liddil (Jesse Goes Down)

Bob Boze Bell
trailride

Dude Ranching at an Outlaw Haunt

Darley Newman
boggsunleashed

Can’t Kick the Boot Addiction

Johnny D. Boggs
whatsitlike

Grass Valley, California

TW Editors
enegaderds

(Not Really) Roughing It on the Mark Twain Trail

Johnny D. Boggs
preservation

Preservation: Remember the Alamo!

Mark Boardman
jimmu-palmiotti_cowriter_jonah-hex_dc_comics_painkiller-jane

Jimmy Palmiotti

Jimmy Palmiotti
Cowan's Indian art auction included an impressive archive collected by Natalie Curtis.

A Song of Praise for a Forgotten Folklore Collector

Meghan Saar
john wayne true grit

John Wayne’s Silver Screen Shootin’ Irons

Phil Spangenberger
Remembering our beloved cartoonist, Phil Frank (1943-2007).

Frank History

twadmin

What do you know about Pete Spence, a member of the “Cowboys” of Tombstone?

Marshall Trimble

Did Old West houses have outhouses, and were public facilities available?

Marshall Trimble
saviors

Massacre Site Open to the Public

Jana Bommersbach

Were Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane married, and did they have a daughter?

Marshall Trimble

Why were some shotguns called “Greeners” by cowboys in the Old West?

Marshall Trimble

In the Clint Eastwood movie Hang ’em High, a “tumbleweed wagon” picks up prisoners to haul them off to jail. Did such wagons actually exist?

Marshall Trimble

In the Frederic Remington illustration of The Sentinel, is the mission San Xavier del Bac? Behind the mission, aren’t those the Santa Catalina Mountains?

Marshall Trimble

Most modern retailers of Old West period clothing seem to sell only “banded” collared shirts, yet old photographs show cowboys did wear shirts with collars. When did cowboys begin wearing these shirts?

Marshall Trimble
Texas History Movies taught history the old-fashioned way.

Back to the Future

Mark Boardman
Western history...with balloons.

True Comics

Paul Andrew Hutton