The best thing about being a Distinguished Professor is the freedom one enjoys from the demands of others and the unfailing inspiration provided by both undergraduate and graduate students. I don’t want to sound like Mr. Chips in the old novel, but there is a nobility to the teaching profession and a great personal satisfaction to be derived from the success of your students.
History has taught me that lives do matter, and that individuals can indeed change the world. That is why, to me, hi

November/December 2008
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Oklahoma Rough Rider (Nonfiction)
- Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory (Nonfiction)
- The American Far West in the 20th Century (Nonfiction)
- The Long Knives are Crying (Fiction)
- Adelsverein: The Gathering (Fiction)
- Ride the Desperate Trail (Fiction)
- From a Distance (Fiction)
- Sagebrush and Paintbrush (Children’s Book)
- A Priest, a Prostitute & Some Other Early Texans (Nonfiction)
- Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Nonfiction)
- Kemo Sabe Unmasked
- Outlaw Trail Collection
- Stranger on Horseback
- Radio Westerns
- Creepy Bastards
- Sturges Biography
- A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
- Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
More In This Issue
- San Diego, California
- Worst Turkeys of the West
- Dashing Through the Snow
- A Good Enough Mine
- Retreat at the Homestead Ranch
- Paul Andrew Hutton
- History, Not For Sale
- Preservation: Hold the Fort
- That Cowboy Stench
- Centennial Winchester Sells High
- Following the Wild Bunch
- Sheriff’s Sale
- Gloomy Blumy’s Beautiful World