Despite his negative reputation as an inhumane military leader of Texas and Mexico’s northern provinces, the infamous Don Joaquin Arredondo continues to hold the interest of many.
While neither vilifying nor apologizing for Arredondo’s actions, author Bradley Folsom gives readers more than just biographical data in Arredondo: Last

True West February 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- Blood on the Earth
- Lewis & Clark-Inspired Whiskey
- What Was the Most Popular Weapon After the Civil War?
- Texas’s Loyal Unionist
- What History Has Taught Me: Max Allan Collins
- Western Events for February 2018
- Who Succeeded “Wild Bill” Hickok as Marshal of Abilene, Kansas?
- The Mysterious Death of John Ringo
- Blessed Booze
- Did Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday’s Fathers Meet While Serving in the Mexican-American War?
- Hot Air & Kind Words
- Did Most Old West Towns Have “No Carry” Gun Laws?
- Wild West Six-gun Goes to War
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2018
- Gunfight in the Galiuros
- Did Whip Snapper Lash LaRue Make Movies?