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October 2010

60+ Years of True West Magazine

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Features

The friendship of two artists who painted different American Wests.   

“Old Timer” and “Friend Dixon”

Thomas Brent Smith
Montana and Wyoming duke it out over a famous Custer battlefield painting.

Custer & the War Between the States

Heidi Kennedy

Western Books & Movies

Convict Cowgirls

Henry Cabot Beck
(Warner Home Video; $19.98)

Louis L’Amour Western Collection

Henry Cabot Beck
(Warner Home Video; $35.99)

Jonah Hex

Henry Cabot Beck
 (MGM; $69.98)

The Magnificent Seven

Henry Cabot Beck
(Warner Home Video; $24.98)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Henry Cabot Beck
Talking with Max Evans during the 50th anniversary of The Rounders.

“That Cockeyed Little Old Thing”

Henry Cabot Beck
R. Michael Wilson (McFarland & Co., $95)

Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911

Richard H. Dillon
Leonard Marks (Outskirts Press, $18.95)

I’m the Man You Thought You Killed

William Garwood

Old West Shootists

Mark Boardman

More In This Issue

Elfego Baca vs. The Cowboys

Uno, Dos, Tres!

Bob Boze Bell
Boosting your confidence at the Double E Ranch.

Cowgirl 101 in Apache Country

Darley Newman
Just as passionate about the “ring of truth” in its ad campaign as the company is about its replica firearms.

Uberti’s Wild West

Phil Spangenberger
Following the artist 200 years after his birth, from Independence, Missouri, to Daniel, Wyoming.

Trailing Alfred Jacob Miller in the West

Candy Moulton
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A Crotchety Cowboy Mentor

Jana Bommersbach
John Tunstall’s kin traveled from England to fathom death in Lincoln.

The Tunstalls Return

Mark Boardman
Not quite; although molasses can get that sticky.

Exploding Ginger Snaps?

Sherry Monahan
The snow-blind trapper.

Too Much Sun

Dr. Jim Kornberg

Outerwear Out West

G. Daniel DeWeese
Eanger Irving Couse’s 1917 painting tops the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction this year.

Celebration of Non-Indian, Indian Art

Meghan Saar
Documenting the cowboy artist’s most treasured sidearm.  

C.M. Russell’s Illustrated Colt

R.B. Pickering

Mike Scovel

Mike Scovel

Fort Davis, Texas

Meghan Saar
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What does “kack” refer to?

Marshall Trimble
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Who is the namesake of Allen Street in Tombstone, Arizona?

Marshall Trimble
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Did most Old West saloons have swinging doors?

Marshall Trimble
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Were the Yaqui Indians the most fearsome warrior tribe?

Marshall Trimble
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Were Hickok’s 1851 Navy Colts plated?

Marshall Trimble
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What can you tell me about the eight-gauge shotgun in Streets of Laredo?

Marshall Trimble
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Who was the first American to map the Columbia River Basin?

Marshall Trimble
Remember The Last Command. 

Forget The Alamo

Johnny D. Boggs