This is the first “Luke and Jenny Adventure” in a series of historical novels aimed at young readers. Younger readers should feel a kinship with the siblings Luke and Jenny, who are not too keen on vacationing in Tombstone, Arizona, until they are suddenly swept back to the 1800s. Interesting guides, like the ghost of the Grand Hotel, help Luke and Jenny learn the story of the Earp brothers and what led to the infamous shoot-out at the O.K. Corral. I particularly like how some children to
November 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Hey Diddle Diddle (Fiction)
- Did She Strike Down Custer?
- Honky-Tonk Heroes & Hillbilly Angels (Nonfiction)
- Remember Little Bighorn (Nonfiction)
- One Christmas In Old Tascosa (Nonfiction)
- A Brave Boy & A Good Soldier (Nonfiction)
- Buckamoo Girls (Fiction)
- Into The West (Nonfiction)
- Much Ado About Grubstake (Fiction)
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Fiction)
- Wishful Watoosi (Fiction)
- The Little Cow in Valle Grande (Fiction)
- Leroy The Cowboy (Fiction)
- A Small White Scar (Fiction)
- To Tease A Texan
- TROUBLE HUNTER
- Old West in the Old World
- Rodeo Summer
- THE RAIDERS: SONS OF TEXAS
- The Life & Times of Nathaniel Hale Pryor
- WHITE MAN’S PAPER TRAIL
- Blood and Thunder
- THE YOUNG DUKE
- JAY COOKE’S GAMBLE
- Saddling Up Anyway
- SERIESous about the West?
- Romeo Romances Left to Pasture
- Ranch Romances
- Books to Film
- The Adventures Of Brisco County, Jr.
- James Stewart: The Signature Collection
- Will Rogers Collection
More In This Issue
- The first book on the Old West that I owned was Lea McCarty’s The Gunfighters; how accurate is it?
- All the World’s a Stage on the Overland Trail
- Guthrie, Oklahoma
- Getting Down to Brass Tacks
- Fort Courage Isn’t Here
- Preservation: Publisher Preserves AZ History
- Terpning Breaks Million-dollar Mark
- Harvey Girls
- Bear Valley Records
- In Westerns, I’ve heard fighters say, “Pick off the chief with the headdress on, and the rest will go away.” Did this really happen in the West?
- What can you tell me about the Tombstone Tigers baseball team?
- In his writings, John W. Gilchriese cited entries from a diary he owned that was allegedly kept by Virgil Earp. Does it exist?
- What did cowboys do for a living when they were too old for cowboyin’?
- Who is Glendolene Myrtle Kimmell? She defends Tom Horn’s actions in a 1904 letter to the governor of Wyoming.
- In the Black
- Fort Worth Firefight