Walter Noble Burns was onto something. A 56-year-old Chicago journalist, Burns had become intrigued by a long-dead and largely forgotten outlaw named Billy the Kid. He suspected the Kid’s bloody career might make a good story. So, in the summer of 1923, Burns traveled t

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