The Class of 2021 has turned in their research and—boy, howdy—there are some eyebrow-raisers here.
When I was first diving deep into all the Billy the Kid scholarship back in the last century—doesn’t that sound ridiculous?—much heavy lifting had already been done by my go-to researchers, Philip J. Rasch, Nora True Henn, William A. Kelleher and Frederick Nolan. Even then folks thought the

True West July/August 2021
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Western Roundup: July/August 2021
- The Trails and Tales of the Old West Go on Forever
- What History Has Taught Me: Ronnie Dunn
- Medora, North Dakota
- Magical Mezcal
- True Grit
- The Kid’s First Kill
- The 1841 “Mississippi” Rifle
- The West’s First Preservationist Will Surprise You
- Great Danger Rests on the Town! God Save Us!
- Shooting Back