Rex Buchman says the mare I’m riding has been fed rocket fuel, but I don’t believe him. Besides, as our horses enter the Pecos River near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, my only concern is: Can she swim?
Buchman, a program director/agent with the DeBaca County Extension Service, and Tim T. Hagaman, who runs the Wortley Pat Garrett Hotel in historic Lincoln, created “The Trail of Billy’s Last Ride,” a 100-plus-mile butt-on experience from Lincoln to Fort Sumner, but I’m not part of that

January/February 2005
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Lost to History
- Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens
- .45-Caliber Revenge
- Across the Kansas Prairie
- Plain Language
- Beauty for Ashes
- Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
- Cowboys Who Rode Proudly
- Bits & Spurs: Motifs, Techniques and Modern Makers
- The Lewis & Clark Trail: Yesterday and Today
- Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers
- The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915
- On a Silver Desert
- In His Blood
- Boone’s Lick
- Skeletons of the Sahara
More In This Issue
- Putting the Western Back in the Country
- “Saddle Up!”
- The House that Cash Built Sells High
- Colt Revolver Cylinder Scenes
- Open Road…In the Life
- Old Friends
- A Tribute to Jimmy Martin “The King of Bluegrass”
- A Ballad of the West: Songs From the Epic Trilogy
- In Her Daddy’s Footsteps
- Following Billy the Kid
- Down on Lewis & Clark
- Saddling Up in Style