Dateline: Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, Saturday, May 23, 1896.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, age 20, arrived here today to begin a harrowing ten-month tour of duty with the 7th U.S. Cavalry. A graduate of Michigan Military Academy, Burroughs had

True West July 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- True Western Towns: Glasgow, Montana
- Over Land and Water with John Wesley Powell
- What About Old West Waste Disposal?
- Shouldn’t right-handers hold reins in their left hands?
- The Deadly Escape
- What are “long-tailed heroes”?
- Did Billy the Kid Serve as an Interpreter for Irish Immigrants?
- What History Has Taught Me: Shelley Buffalo Calf
- C.M. Russell Rides Again
- A Collector Like No Other
- Were Davy Crockett and his men Captured and Executed in Mexico City?