Appaloosa wasn’t Robert B. Parker’s first Western; that honor goes to Gunman’s Rhapsody, his 2001 novel about Wyatt Earp and Tombstone. Yet Parker promised more stories featuring his Appaloosa characters, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, if the book was optioned for a film. New Line gave Appaloosa the greenlight as a feature film starring Ed Harris as the gunfighter/lawman Cole, Viggo Mortensen as his more articulate buddy Hitch and Renee Zellweger as the delightful yet deceitful Allie Fr

October 2007
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Married to the Camera
- True tales of the Prairies & Plains
- Indian war veterans
- Frontier Justice in the Wild West
- The Gambler and the Bug boy
- New indians, Old Wars
- Four and twenty photographs
- The Fabric of America
- Blackfoot War Art
- 3:10 to Yuma, on Track?
- My Dear Tom Mix
- Good Luck Dogged My Trail
- Avenging Victorio
- Revenge & Redemption
- The Comic Named Man With No Name
- Appa-palooza
- Hundred in the Hand
- Fancy Pants
- Gunsmoke: The First Season
More In This Issue
- Campfire Shoot-Out
- John Colter’s Favorite Mistake
- Preservation:Earp—All in the Family
- Off the Reservation, the Range, the Ranch and the Regular
- In the movie Tombstone, Wyatt steps off the train wearing square-toed boots. Aren’t those a 1970’s invention?
- Buffalo Bill’s Wild Bunch
- Ranchers vs. Army
- Wyeth Sets Record with Hickok Oil
- The Good, the Bad at the O.K. Corral
- On the inside page of Ross Santee’s Cowboy, the dedication reads, “For Shorty Caraway—Top Hand.” What do you know about the author or Shorty?
- Did Old West lawmen write a police blotter? Or was it more like a journal?
- Did steamboats bring passengers and supplies from California to Arizona?
- What can you tell me about William T. Phillips, who claimed to be Butch Cassidy in the early 1920s?
- A Phoenix newspaper once reported on the rampant violence, murders and mayhem in Two Guns, Arizona. What books tell the history of this town?
- Denton, Texas
- Salt Siege Shoot-out
- Preservation: James-Younger Gang Returns to Northfield
- Be Like Remington