Joni Harms can toss a 100-pound hay bale with almost the same ease she cradles her guitar. Her new hit CD might just as well be called “Let’s Put the NATURAL Back in the Country,” rather than “the Western,” as she sings. True cowgirl from hat to boot, she’s lived on a Century Farm all of her life. Herding cows and rodeoing are all a part of what makes her tick. Her music is how she conveys her love of this way of life. The dye was cast for Joni’s future career at age four

January/February 2005
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Lost to History
- Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens
- .45-Caliber Revenge
- Across the Kansas Prairie
- Plain Language
- Beauty for Ashes
- Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
- Cowboys Who Rode Proudly
- Bits & Spurs: Motifs, Techniques and Modern Makers
- The Lewis & Clark Trail: Yesterday and Today
- Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers
- The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915
- On a Silver Desert
- In His Blood
- Boone’s Lick
- Skeletons of the Sahara
More In This Issue
- Putting the Western Back in the Country
- “Saddle Up!”
- The House that Cash Built Sells High
- Colt Revolver Cylinder Scenes
- Open Road…In the Life
- Old Friends
- A Tribute to Jimmy Martin “The King of Bluegrass”
- A Ballad of the West: Songs From the Epic Trilogy
- In Her Daddy’s Footsteps
- Following Billy the Kid
- Down on Lewis & Clark
- Saddling Up in Style