Bobby Bridger is a modern epic poet or bard, once referred to as the “Shakespeare of the American West.” Bridger’s rich musical trilogy spans the mountain man era, the journeys of Buffalo Bill and the Lakota world of Black Elk. The original three-part album is a listening experience worthy of a long weekend. But if all you have is an hour, this CD offers stunning excerpts from the trilogy that will awaken the hunger for more. Finely crafted, superbly sung—history brought eerily

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