With nearly 300 years of history to investigate the Apache-Spanish-Mexican-American conflict, many historians choose to write about the Bascom Affair of February 1861, that seminal point of ignition of warfare between the Apaches and the United States. Author Doug Hocking is no different. In his follow-up to his a

True West March 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Good Things to Eat
- Can You Tell me What Version of the Winchester ’73 Jimmy Stewart Used in the Movie of the Same Name?
- The Central Pacific’s Chinese Trail
- What Was the Availability of Eyeglasses Like in the Old West?
- Omaha is Still “All Aboard”
- Saratoga, Wyoming
- What History Has Taught Me: Dolan Ellis
- Dead Man Running
- Did Old West Cowboys Really Wear Bib Shirts?
- What Did Cowboys Do After Reaching the End of a Cattle Drive?
- The Big Fight
- Did Frontier Saloons Serve Cold Beer?
- Who Was Allowed to Wear Feathered Bonnets and What Did They Signify?
- What History Has Taught Me: Alan Rockman