If anybody needs convincing that the boomers still wield considerable cultural and economic clout, consider this: The Beatles still rule, as evidenced by Love, Cirque Du Soleil’s Vegas extravaganza, as well as the new Paul McCartney CD. At the same time, James Bond has been successfully reborn in Casino Royale, his sixth incarnation, the Kennedy assassination conspiracy ball is still in play, the Marvel Universe of the early 1960s is dominating the box office with Spidey 3 and Fantastic Fou
August 2007
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Vote Longmire for Sheriff
- Not So Lonesome
- The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76
- Alex Swan and the Swan Companies
- Passion and Principle
- Raven Springs
- To Tame A Land
- Writing the Wicked West
- DEADWOOD: The complete Third Season
- When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
- Gary Cooper MGM Movie Legends Collection
- WAYNE’S WORLD
- The Vengeance Brand
- A Fistful of DVDs
- The Great Houses of Chaco
- The Look of the Old West
- The Secret War For Texas
- California Badmen
- The Year the Stars Fell
- Courting Trouble
- Best Reads (And They Aren’t All Westerns)
- A Ranger War & Billy the Kid
- The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
- A People at War
- Seraphim Falls
- A Girl is a Gun
- On the Wrong Track
- Hunt Down
- Rio Bravo Still Sings
- Storytelling in Yellowstone
- Tìo Cowboy
- Wild Ride
- The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska
- Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger
- Whips of the West
- People of the Nightland
- Northfield
More In This Issue
- On Oklahoma’s Centennial Trail
- The Battle of Big Dry Wash
- Preservation: Saving the Sheriff
- Who Killed Col. Fountain?
- Remembering Mountain Meadows
- The Bad Man from Bodie
- Music That Ain’t Country (Let Alone Western)
- Fort Stanton’s Angel
- Virginia City, Montana
- I can’t locate a copy of Richard O’Connor’s Bat Masterson book, listed in the credits of the TV series starring Gene Barry. Is there another biography I can buy?
- My SASS friends and I disagree. I say chinks were not worn by working cowboys in the 1890s. I believe they were show wear for riders during the late 1940s. Can you settle this?
- True West calls the Tombstone battle the “Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral,” while Earp historian Allen Barra calls it the “Street Fight in Tombstone.” How did people in the 19th century refer to it?
- Most Hollywood movies end with the good guys winning and the bad guys in jail or dead. How true is that to the Old West?
- Rock Island’s Rare Rig
- The Beecher’s Island Boys
- In the Old West, did men carrying six-shooters leave one chamber empty as a safety measure?
- UPDATES: The Lone Bandit and Shalako
- A Tragic End to a Classic Cowgirl
- Civil War in the West
- Preservation: Song Of Praise
- Silver City Shoot-Out
- Rifle Packin’ in the Old West
- The Beecher’s Island Boys
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
- Did Bat Masterson actually have to use a cane after being shot by Sgt. Melvin King in 1876, or is this just part of the legend?
- Why do so many Westerns show bacon and beans as the campfire meal? And how did the characters cook the beans so fast?
- What’s the difference between an Old West marshal and a sheriff?
- Where is Wyatt Earp’s second “wife,” Mattie Blaylock, buried?
- Did cowboys in the Old West really wear that much clothes, even on sunny days?
- In 1969’s Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, are the characters Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore based on real people?
- Casa de Adobe
- Mining Vs. Ranching