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Signing Off On the Holy Grail

Meghan Saar
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East Texas Treasure

Jana Bommersbach
J.E. Meddaugh photographed these Lakota Sioux ghost dancers on the Pine Ridge Reservation, probably circa 1890. Misinformation about Wovoka’s Ghost Dance movement led to the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890. – Courtesy NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION –

A Deadly Vision

Mark Boardman
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Fighting Blades of the Frontier

Phil Spangenberger
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Top Western Museums of 2014

Johnny D. Boggs
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The Arms of a Woman

Chris Enss
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Scout for Two Continents

Mike Coppock
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Billy the Kid

Mark Lee Gardner

Rough Drafts 9/14

Stuart Rosebrook
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In a photo of six cowboys, two of them smoke pipes with the bowls turned upside down. Why?

Marshall Trimble
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To what extent did telegraph companies help open the West?

Marshall Trimble
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Where were Belle Starr and Jim Reed married, and did Frank and Jesse James attend the wedding?

Marshall Trimble
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Where does “Arizona” come from?

Marshall Trimble
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Who is buried behind the Tunstall store in Lincoln, New Mexico?

Marshall Trimble
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Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson remained fairly loyal to each other over the years. Considering their self-serving natures, how did that happen?

Marshall Trimble
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Olive a Good Joke

Sherry Monahan
Daniel Boone might have held court under two “judgment trees,” the first in present-day Matson from 1800 to 1804, and the second, on his son Nathan’s property, after 1804. This site was located in 1987. – All photos by Johnny D. Boggs –

Finding Daniel Boone in a Cornfield

Johnny D. Boggs
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Brian Lebel

Brian Lebel
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A Shot In The Dark

Bob Boze Bell and Mark Lee Gardner
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Little Robe

Tom Augherton
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The Gilded General’s Eternal March West

Stuart Rosebrook
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Invaders in the Big Horns

John Stanley
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Back-Alley Barbary Coast Murder Mystery

Patrick Millikan
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Taking Aim at Gunslingers

C. Courtney Joyner
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Rollicking Western Filled with Adventure

W.C. Jameson
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Comparing Billy to Billy

Mark Lee Gardner
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An Army Doctor’s Frontier Revelations

Edwin R Sweeney
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Hail, Columbia!

Candy Moulton
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The Western Empire of Geography—and Geometry

Jack L. August Jr.
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Blazing Saddles—Still Blazin’

C. Courtney Joyner
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Gritty Realism Inspires Western Author Michael Zimmer’s Love of the West

Stuart Rosebrook
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The Billy the Kid Photo at a Glance

TW Editors
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September 2014 Events

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Why do some sheriff’s and marshal’s badges have five points or six points?

Marshall Trimble
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Billy the Kid

Mark Lee Gardner