Steve Friesen recently retired after 22 years as director of the Buffalo Bill Museum
and Grave. He is the author of Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary and Lakota Performers in Europe. Here are five books he recommends:
1) The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill by Don Russell (University of Oklahoma Press): This is a classic. It is not exactly a page-turner, but it’s my go-to book for details about
True West June 2018
In This Issue:
Features
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Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Rudolfo Anaya
- A Watch to Die For
- Did Ranches have Ice Houses?
- Idaho City: Queen of the Gold Camps
- Western Events for June 2018
- Did Gunmen really make Tenderfeet “Dance” by Shooting at their Feet?
- Was “Little Gertie, the Gold Dollar” Real?
- Romance and the Buffalo Hunt
- Discover San Angelo – An Oasis in West Texas, Off the Beaten Path
- What Happened in the Billy Allen-”Doc” Holliday Fight Over $5?
- The Painter’s Cabin
- The Dodge City Lawdog