“How much am I bid for this cake?” asked the auctioneer as he lifted it to show the bidders. Cakes were often sold to raise money for churches and other organizations. George W. Atkins, a 35-year-old miner who lived in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1880, attended one of these fund-raisers. Atkins had his eye on one particular cake for his sweetheart, and said he intende

November/December 2010
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Trailer Safety
- 1929’s Hell’s Heroes
- Streets of Laredo/Dead Man’s Walk
- The Last of the Mohicans
- What the Cowboy Life Taught Raoul Walsh
- Grand Theft Stagecoach
- Ghost Town Travelogues
- The Cowgirl Way
- In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark
- Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill
- Outlaw Tales of Nebraska
- Forts, Fights, and Frontier Sites
More In This Issue
- Wham, Bam, Thank You Uncle Sam!
- Elk City, Oklahoma
- Bob Stinson
- Ranch Riding on Hawaii’s Big Island
- A New-Old Needle Gun
- On the Cheyenne Heritage Trail
- A View of Vasquez
- Cake Was His Last Meal
- Dust, Death and Disability
- Buckles: The Cowboy Calling Card
- Hauser’s Story Finds its Heartbeat
- Why are smaller wheels on the front of stagecoaches and wagons?
- Are the wooden hitching posts in frontier towns pure Hollywood?
- How common were stagecoach robberies in the Old West?
- Did jail cells in Westerns always have a window to an alley?
- Did Old West folks wear sunglasses?
- Did 19th-century U.S. soldiers carry military ID cards?
- What are the odds that an Old West cowboy would get into a gunfight?
- The Truth to Chaco Canyon
- The Seeds of Navajo Soul