"I buried Pecker in his favorite place. I’d seen him come to pray here sometimes early of a morning when the sun was just coming over the eastern mountains. He’d kneel down by this very clump of sage, take off his hat, and be still for several minutes. I envied him that peace. So, it was natural for me to bury him here. And the right thing, the decent thing for me to do, as I’d done the killing.” Lori Van Pelt clearly knows how to draw in readers, so it’s no wonder that her short

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