What a wonderful little gem of a book this is! For those who just want the action-packed, train-robbing stories of the Old West, it’s all here. This book holds no fluff, but it does pack the history and thrill of yesterday’s bad guy train robbers. Included in the book are the robberies committed by lesser known outlaws, yet just as compelling are those by the Ketchum Gang, Sam Bass and by Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch in Tipton and Wilcox, Wyoming. “Think ya used enough dynamite
May 2007
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Black Hats
- Tough Towns
- The Great Mormon Cricket Fly-Fishing Festival
- Spanakopita Western
- Cisco Kid
- The Big Valley Season Two, Vol. 1
- Wild Indigo
- The Canyon of Bones
- A Fate Worse Than Death
- Arizona Sheriffs
- John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman
- Yellowstone Denied
- Rio Bravo/ The Cowboys
- Frontiers
- Boomtown Saloons
- Hard and Noble Lives
- Broken Trail Spin-Offs
- Moses Taite’s War
- An Endless Attraction to Billy
- From Hondo to Big Ike
- On Location!
- The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
- Vengeance Moon
- Texas Showdown
- Under the Sunset Rim
- Sunset Trail
- Give Me Mountains For My Horses
- Spreading the Word
- Bandidas
- The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
- BALLOTS AND BULLETS: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
- Lone Star Lawman
- Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town
- Following the Royal Road
- Great Train Robberies of the Old West
More In This Issue
- The Tale of the Empty Chamber
- Stories Behind the Song
- On the Trail of John Wayne
- Honoring Mothers and Fathers
- Weapons as Art
- Preservation: Splish Splash Bath
- Not a Leg to Stand On
- Collecting the West Roundup
- Rendezvous Deja Vu
- Deadwood, SD
- Harry Young, a bartender at the #10 Saloon in Deadwood, was present when Wild Bill Hickok was killed. In a 1915 book, Young claimed that Hickok lost his last hand to William Massie, Kings full to four 7s. So what is the source of the Dead Man’s Hand of Ac
- What can you tell us about the movie lot called Cudia City in Phoenix, Arizona? The TV series 26 Men was shot there.
- I own an 1883 photo taken in Hunter’s Hot Springs, Montana, that supposedly shows Wyatt and Morgan Earp, Teddy Roosevelt, Butch Cassidy, Judge Roy Bean and other notables. Is it legit?
- In El Paso on August 19, 1895, did John Selman shoot Hardin in the back of the head, as many believe, or did he shoot him in the face, as Selman swore?
- Where can I find a definitive biography on Jim Miller?
- Sacking Lawrence
- Top 10 Western Museums of 2007
- What insurance companies cover Old West re-enactment groups?
- Tracking the Great Bear
- One Man With Courage Makes A Majority
- No Compromise with War
- Ugly Ducklings of Frontier Six-shooters
- Preservation: Roll Along, Wagon Train
- Queen of Country Swing’s Tough Mamas
- Sacking Lawrence
- A Gun Exchanged for Billy the Kid’s Mare
- A Man That Won’t Bend
- St. Joseph, MO
- Stories Behind the Song
- Trailing the First Indian Person
- ATM Update: Hunnewell, KS
- What can you tell me about Cimarron, New Mexico?
- If John Wayne was granted deferment from military service during WWII because he had a large family, wouldn’t this make him a draft dodger?
- What can you tell me about hat cords in the frontier military?
- What pistol did Wild Bill Hickok favor?