I’ve been warned that a friendly ghost lurks about the Ellis Country Store Inn in Lincoln, New Mexico. They’ve put me up in the haunted Mill House, and I’m thinking, “Why must every B&B, every hotel, every house in the West have a ghost?” Don’t get me wrong. I believe in ghosts. It’s just that ghosts, for some reason, don’t believe in me. I retire to my room and go to

October 2009
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Gary Ernest Smith
- Heading for the Hills
- Famed Forty-Fours Shoot Again
- Following Charlie Russell’s Paintbrush
- River Rock Oasis
- Chinese Food Anyone?
- Preservation: An Artistic Renovation
- The Apache Cupid
- The Boot Seen Round The World
- An Awful Time for Children
- Journey of Hope and Prosperity
- Hauntings in the West
- Slaughter
- Did ID cards exist in the Old West?
- How did Indians break horses, as opposed to the cowboy way?
- Is it true that Wyatt Earp killed only one man in Dodge City, Kansas?
- What is the story behind the folk song “Tom Dooley?”
- I was disappointed to learn Log of a Cowboy was a work of fiction.