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November/December 2011

60+ Years of True West Magazine

Every issue ever published now at your fingertips. Read the very first issue from 1953, all the way to our most current. A truly monumental archive!

Features

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Showdown at the V Cross T

Ollie Reed Jr.

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Five Myths About Ned Wynkoop

Louis Kraft

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The Gift of Cochise

Paul Andrew Hutton

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Rare Images of the West

Michael Wallis and Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis

Departments

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November/December 2011 Events

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Western Books & Movies

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Spur-Winning Novelists—Blue Heaven

William Garwood

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Spur-Winning Novelists—The Richest Hill on Earth

William Garwood

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Yuma Gold

William Garwood

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Death Waits at Sundown

William Garwood

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Out of Control

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza

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1959’s No Name on the Bullet

Josh Becker

The Bloody Benders

Henry Cabot Beck

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Meek’s Cutoff

Henry Cabot Beck

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Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938

Henry Cabot Beck

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The Lonely Road

Linda Wommack

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Butch is Back!

Henry Cabot Beck

More In This Issue

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Keeping New Mexico’s Pueblo Culture Alive

Jana Bommersbach

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Butch & Sundance—and Rolla

Mark Boardman

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Mountain Man Grub vs the Forts’

Sherry Monahan

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Not-So-True True Grit

Dr. Jim Kornberg

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Ponchos Ride Again

G. Daniel DeWeese

In one C.S. Fly photograph, Geronimo holds two long sticks in his left hand. Would these be tamping rods for the rifle he’s holding?

Marshall Trimble

I own an Old West poker chip with the imprint of a crescent and star. Is it true that was the mark for the Acme Saloon in El Paso, where John Wesley Hardin was killed?

Marshall Trimble

Why is Arizona’s Zane Grey Highway also called the General Crook Trail?

Marshall Trimble

During our recent trip to Wyoming’s Fort Laramie, our tour guide told us that when Union troops left Indian Territory forts to serve in the Civil War, the Union sent more than 6,000 Confederate captives to man the forts. Is that correct?

Marshall Trimble

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Ellensburg, Washington

Miriam Cronkhite

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Learning Their Trade…In Stir

Johnny D. Boggs

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Miranda Lambert

Stuart Rosebrook

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Saddle Up for the Holidays

Darley Newman

How long would it have taken a wagon train to go from Mississippi to California in the 1800s?

Marshall Trimble

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Artists We Love—Ed Mell

Bob Boze Bell

Did Old West lynch mobs ever remove the boots of the man about to swing?

Marshall Trimble

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Following New Mexico’s Road to Statehood

Johnny D. Boggs

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Nampeyo’s Legacy

Meghan Saar

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Ugly Ducklings, No More

Phil Spangenberger

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Cave Creek Ambush

Bob Boze Bell

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Juni Fisher

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