Is 1954’s Dawn at Socorro based on a true story? Peter Birkin Kadina, South Australia, Australia Dawn at Socorro brings back memories. I first watched it as a 15-year-old kid at the Yavapai Theater in Ash Fork, Arizona. Back then, Rory Calhoun was one of Hollywood’s most glamorous Western stars. Calhoun plays the role of a gunfighter-gambler who goes up against a crooked saloon owner played by David Brian. Beautiful red-haired Piper Laurie is the third part of this triangle while that great
March 2007
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Train Man
- The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’amor: The Adventure Stories
- From Lead Mines to Gold Fields
- A Time for Peace: Fort Lewis, Colorado, 1878-1891
- The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns
- Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier
- Rock Hudson Screen Legend Collection
- Legendary Outlaws
- Gunsmoke: The Director’s Collection
- Devil’s Gate
- New Mexico Past and Future
- The Hart Brand
- The Tobermory Manuscript
- Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve
- Camino del Norte
- Heaven is a Long Way Off
- A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque
More In This Issue
- A Man That Won’t Bend
- Mellonsfolly’s Wild West
- “Western Movie” Night … at the Museum
- Trailing the First Indian Person
- Madonna of the Western Trails
- I’m making models of authentic Western homes/ranches. Can you tell me more about the use of glass in the Old West?
- Is 1954’s Dawn at Socorro based on a true story?
- Railroad’s First Lady
- Have Gun, Safe for Travel?
- Whiskey-Runnin’ Whoop-Up Trail
- Preservation: Depot Heroes
- Tom Horn Hits the Auction Block
- Adair Before They Die
- Was Wyatt Earp as good a hero as we have been led to believe? I’ve read he was involved in a “gold brick” swindle. Can you tell me more about that scam?
- A family Bible belonging to the sister of Brushy Bill, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, listed his birth year as 1879. If this is true, then Brushy Bill couldn’t possibly be Billy the Kid, right?
- How did the term “cowpoke” come about?
- Wickenburg, Arizona
- What shirts were popular in the Old West?
- Don’t Miss the Party Train
- Zane Grey’s Arizona
- Party Like a Cowboy
- Zebulon Pike’s Wandering Explorations