What did drifting cowboys carry with them when they traveled? Paul Stockford, Maniac #1,200 Cave Creek, Arizona If a drifter was going very far, he always took along a pack animal. For short trips, he might ride from ranch to ranch, arriving just in time for a meal. Ranchers always left out the latch string for travelers. As for clothes, he probably had only one change, which he rolled up in his bedroll. Personal items were toted in his “war sack.” He usually slept in his long-handled underw

April 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Searchers at 50
- THE TAOS TRAPPERS: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846
- From 9.11 to the Alamo
- The Golden Corridor
- CONTEMPORARY WESTERN DESIGN
- COLORADO’S JAPANESE AMERICANS: FROM 1886 TO THE PRESENT
- MORMON RESISTANCE
- GUNS OF THE WILD WEST
- OUTLAW TALES OF COLORADO
- DAKOTA
- OUTLAW’S BRAT
- Brush Country
More In This Issue
- Maze Creek Studio
- If the Bird Cage Theatre opened on Christmas day 1881, why does the movie Tombstone show characters at the Bird Cage prior to the October 1881 gunfight?
- Confessions of a Ghost Town Maniac
- Frontier Army’s First Pick
- Goliad, Texas
- Clark on the Yellowstone
- No Horsin’ Around on Billy’s Last Ride
- En Plein Air
- A Shoot-’em-up for Gamers
- I read somewhere that no legal agency ever put out wanted posters that stated, “Dead or Alive.” What’s the truth?
- The First Ronstadt Superstar
- Fillmore & Western Railway
- A museum in Jerome, Arizona, had a photograph of Pancho Villa standing by some mules pulling a water wagon. Did he really deliver water to the Jerome mines?
- What did drifting cowboys carry with them when they traveled?
- How did the Wyoming horse Steamboat get his name?
- Is the Maxwell building or ranch still standing where Billy the Kid was shot?
- What do you consider to be the most interesting events of the Old West?
- THE WHOLE ENCHILADA
- HONEYCOMB
- Wild West WOW!
- Simple Man
- CHERRYHOLMES
- The Moon was Blue
- BACK HOME IN SULPHUR SPRINGS
- I Believe