This issue’s Ulysses S. Grant cover was illustrated by Allen Polt, a portrait artist who lives in Oro Valley, Arizona, and shows his art at Settlers West Galleries in Tucson and Nedra Matteucci Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After drawing black-and-white portraits for The Wall Street Journal, he moved from New York City to Taos, New Mexico, in 1974. His celebrity portraits include Jeff Bridges,

True West May 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Allen Polt
- Who was Arizona Territory’s most Notorious Outlaw?
- Steamboats on the Missouri
- Western Events for May 2018
- U.S. Cavalry’s First Bolt-Action Carbine
- Mountain Men, Mules and Miners
- How Were Stagecoach Robberies Usually Executed?
- Clash of the Mad Madams
- How Long did it take a Cattle Drive to go from Texas to the Cowtowns?
- Private Eye Cowboy?
- In the Lonesome Dove Photo, I Could Pick out only Woodrow Call and Clara Allen. Did the Other Main Cast Members Leave the Set?
- That’s My Steak, Valance
- Custer’s Conspirator
- What did Cowboys Typically Eat on a Cattle Drive?
- An Electric Dream Burns Out
- The Black Man at Little Big Horn