Living and working as an artist in one of the few places in Scottsdale, Arizona, that remains natural and largely undeveloped, Mark McDowell daily draws inspiration from the rugged landscape and the nurturing environment. He lives in a “little handmade house in the center of posh Paradise Valley,” with an uncharacteristic dirt driveway. Constructed out of “mostly

July 2008
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War
- Brides of the West (Fiction)
- Black Rock Cañon
- Burn English (Fiction)
- Virgin River (Fiction)
- Bud Ballew: Legendary Oklahoma Lawman (Nonfiction)
- A Few Good Horses (Nonfiction)
- Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier (Nonfiction)
- Arc of the Medicine Line (Nonfiction)
- Inventing the Fiesta City (Nonfiction)
- Stricken Field: The Little bighorn Since 1876 (Nonfiction)
- Pat Green’s Dance Halls & Dreamers (Nonfiction)
- Close-Ups on the Outcasts
More In This Issue
- Recreating Indian-Inspired Adobes
- Modern Cowboys
- Big Bend Mystery Under the Sands
- The Kings of the Beaumont
- The Emperor’s Old Guns
- Run Out of Town On a Rail
- Horse Trading for a Better Guthrie
- Preservation: Let the Water Flow
- Mike Blakely
- Cattle Track Creations
- Speaking Horse
- NRA’s Cowboy Celebration
- Dodge City’s All-Stars
- Charlie Russell’s Newest Painting
- Diabetes in the Old West
- Forting Up On the Apache Trail
- Columbia, California
- Golly, What a Gully!
- I Will Kidnap No More Forever
- Trophy Hunting in Yellowstone
- Great Secrets of Our National Parks