1. Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park provides the finest example of living history on the Northern Plains. Besides the reconstructed Custer House (with its guided tours by 1875-era re-enactor soldiers and maids) and its seven other military reconstructions, the state park includes a Mandan village, occupied from 1575-1781, with six earthlodges filled with exhibits. An excellent visitors center provides the best display in the world on the history of the Mandan people. 2. Check out the b

April 2012
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Traveling Through History
- Wild Bunch Territory
- Tracking the Texas Rangers
- Gold Coast’s Badmen
- Doc Holliday Slept Here
- Custer & Cody Country
- Cathouse Melee
- Cowboys & Cowtowns
- April 2012 Events
- In the Nov/Dec. 2011 issue, I told readers a possible reason why Geronimo was holding two sticks was so he could steady the gun while firing. Reader David West has shared another explanation:
- Who was the man Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed in Abilene, Kansas?
- Why did some vaquero saddles have dinner plate-type saddle horns?
- How successful were traveling entertainers in the Old West?
- The John Wayne Memorabilia exhibit in Los Angeles featured his costume trousers with sewed-on belt loops. Aren’t belt loops an early 20th-century development?
- Did Arizona ever list train robbery as a capital offense?
- John Fusco
- 10 for 10: Bismarck, ND
- Supersized in San Antonio
- Unsinkable Margaret Brown
- Snake River Salmon
- Paramount’s Golden Boy
- Gary Ernest Smith
- Following Sibley’s Confederate Invasion
- Head Over Heels
- Viva Villa!
- Hardin’s Deadly Tools