The Rabelaisian Western has arrived. Its grotesque anti-hero, Eugene Oregon Smonk, is a man with a purpose, that of raising as much Cain and killing as many people as possible for little or no reason. But from the first, this dwarfish decadent seems to be riding hell-bent toward a well deserved finale. Somewhere in the murky neverland of western Alabama, other aberrant personages are working their own way through a constantly darkening world. One particularly purposeless group, the garishly u

October 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Cup-Spinning Scene: How Did They Do It?
- The Boys at the Bar
- Rawhide
- Track Of The Cat
- Cheyenne
- The Wild Wild West
- F Troop
- Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
- Spirit Car
- Bitter Wind
- Come Sundown
- Smonk
- The Skinning Knife
- The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880
- When Silver was King: Arizona’s 1880s Silver King Mine
- River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
- Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide
- Charles F. Lummis: Editor of the Southwest
- The Western Godfather
- Stuck to Her Dream