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True West May 2019

KNUCKLEHEADS OF THE GRAND CANYON

How The Crazy Kolb Brothers Inspired The Creation Of A National Park

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My Emery Memory

Looking back is easier than looking down.

Bob Boze Bell

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Features

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Don’t Shoot Anymore. I Am Dead.

Robert K. DeArment

Born Again!

Johnny D. Boggs
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Crook Fails Custer at the Rosebud

Paul L. Hedren
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Yellowstone Was Only the Beginning

Jana Bommersbach
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Powell and the People of the Plateau

Carol Ormond

Departments

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How did Settlers and Cowboys Calculate Miles?

Marshall Trimble

Lincoln, Nebraska

Leo W. Banks
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Cowan’s Auction

John Langellier
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How Accurate was the Language in the 2010 Version of True Grit?

Marshall Trimble
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Shaken, Stirred and Strong

Sherry Monahan
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What History Has Taught Me: Howard Terpning

Howard Terpning
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Did Ballistics Forensics Ever Come into Play in Solving Crimes in the Old West?

Marshall Trimble
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Was Doc Holliday Really a Deadly Dentist?

Marshall Trimble
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The Diné Return to the Four Corners

Johnny D. Boggs
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Seminole Scouts

John Langellier

Battle of Rosebud

Bob Boze Bell
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Did Frontier Soldiers go through Boot Camp?

Marshall Trimble
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The Militancy of the Miners

Mark Boardman

Western Books & Movies

Clearing the Gunsmoke

Henry C. Parke
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Anarchy on the Rails

Stuart Rosebrook