After Val Kilmer’s “Doc” Holliday gets in a Latin debate with John Ringo in 1993’s Tombstone, Ringo whips out his pistol and launches into a dazzling display of gun twirls. Holliday responds by hooking his finger through the handle of his silver cup (above) and duplicating Ringo’s routine, not with his gun, but with his cup. The room explodes in laughter. He has successfully defused the tense duel between the two. dpc hol

True West May 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Allen Polt
- Who was Arizona Territory’s most Notorious Outlaw?
- Steamboats on the Missouri
- Western Events for May 2018
- U.S. Cavalry’s First Bolt-Action Carbine
- Mountain Men, Mules and Miners
- How Were Stagecoach Robberies Usually Executed?
- Clash of the Mad Madams
- How Long did it take a Cattle Drive to go from Texas to the Cowtowns?
- Private Eye Cowboy?
- In the Lonesome Dove Photo, I Could Pick out only Woodrow Call and Clara Allen. Did the Other Main Cast Members Leave the Set?
- That’s My Steak, Valance
- Custer’s Conspirator
- What did Cowboys Typically Eat on a Cattle Drive?
- An Electric Dream Burns Out
- The Black Man at Little Big Horn