A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. SANTA CLARITA COWBOY FESTIVALSanta Clarita, CA, April 19-22: Melody Ranch & Western film tours, plus performances by acts like Cari Mari & Pony Express, Don Edwards and R.W. Hampton. 661-250-3735 • CowboyFestival.org ADVENTURES COWGIRL CAMP Gila, NM, April 15-20: Offers lessons in horsemanship techniques, a cattle roundup, trail rides and a mini rodeo competition. 575-535-2048 • DoubleERanch.com BLUEGRA

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