For many, the mention of Spanish padres evokes images of bucolic missions stretching far and wide across the Borderlands. Indeed, priests from various Catholic religious orders established these well-known religious-socio-economic centers, but they also played many other roles.
Robert A. Kittle’s Franciscan F
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?