This Western within a Western begins with vacationing Gus Ivy’s haircut in an Arizona barber shop. A reader of sagebrush yarns, he spots The Cavity Lake Gang by B.M. Bower in a box of old books. It’s an odd volume, unissued with no date or copyright. Gus buys the book. Next day, the barber is murdered. Then Ivy “happens” to meet Bower’s granddaughter, the lovely Brice Cassidy. Agreeing the book could be a treasure guide, they go halves. But others are tracking that volume. Gus and B

June 2009
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Dark Border (Fiction)
- North Star (Fiction)
- Cowboy Park (Nonfiction)
- Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West (Nonfiction)
- Mormonism’s Last Colonizer (Nonfiction)
- The Last Indian War (Nonfiction)
- Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge (Nonfiction)
- Full-Court Quest (Nonfiction)
- Wallace Stegner and the American West (Nonfiction)
- Word Gets Around (Fiction)
- Buried Lies (Fiction)
- Western Writers Pick Top 100 Westerns
- Sam Houston: Standing Firm (Children’s Book)
More In This Issue
- Revisiting Lonesome Dove
- Two Oregon Naturals Make A Team
- Steve Shaw
- Shoot-Out at Cottonwood Springs?
- Preservation: Indians on the Internet
- Following Mountain Man Jim Bridger
- Good As Gold
- Gold Fever
- “Fight of My Life”
- Survival in the Cold Old West
- The Chuckwagon Cooky
- Collecting Geronimo
- Why are the rear wheels of stagecoaches larger than the front ones?
- What do we know about Lottie Deno?