As a youngster, Leo W. Banks watched too many TV and movie Westerns. The summer before entering Boston College High School, the Jesuits sent out a reading list that included Jack Schaefer’s Shane, and that sealed it. He was hooked.
Banks has spent his working life as a journalist in Arizona. Whenever possible, he returned to his first love, the West, the frontier, our unique American story. He has covered these topics for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Tr
November 2017
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- John Selman Pt. II
- The Life of a Fur Trapper
- What History Has Taught Me: Margaret Kraisinger
- I’m Just Joshin’ Ya
- Mystery Man Identified
- Jim Beckwourth Leads Out of Fear
- DVD Review: Duel At Diablo
- Leigh Brackett’s Words with John Wayne’s Voice
- Are You for Beer?
- Johnny Lingo: Rot Gut, Sheep Wash, Chain Lightning
- Franciscan Trailblazers
- Last of the B Westerns
- Another Trail of Tears
- Charlie Rich Deals a Deadly Hand
- Tom Mix Superstar of the Roaring Twenties
- Lone Star Legacy
- The First of the Silver Screen Cowboys
- David Terry Tests the Wrong Man
- The Scandalous Saddle
Departments
- Where The West is Still Wild…
- Do we Know who Killed Bob Dalton?
- Black Bart’s Epicurean Escapades
- Cowboys and Conductors
- Western Events for November 2017
- How did Pioneers Preserve Corpses?
- Reveille on the Overland Trail
- The Encounter that Dooms Wild Bill
- Million-Dollar Cowboys
- Why Hasn’t Anyone Written a Book about the Lone Ranger being a Black Man?
- Arizona’s Most Historic Place?
- Was Bill Tilghman Honest?