To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the local flavor at one of these towns. Make no mistake about it, Leadville is not a Cowboy town. Local historian Neil V. Reynolds often introduces his lectures by sharing how miners look at life differently than ranchers would. So what’s a cowboy to do? Make sure you bone up on your mining history before you step into this burg. Best Cowboy, er, Mini

March 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- All Aboard for Santa Fe
- WILD OPEN SPACES: WHY WE LOVE WESTERNS
- CHASING THE RODEO
- GOLD! The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How it Shaped a Nation
- SEEING YELLOWSTONE IN 1871
- THE TOUGHEST GANG IN TOWN
- Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier
- DANCING WITH THE GOLDEN BEAR
- SHOOTIN’ THE BREEZE, COWBOY STYLE
- Sunset Limited
- Arizona’s Apache Country
- SNAKE DANCE
More In This Issue
- Voice for Freedom
- Was Mike Williams an Abilene, Kansas, deputy at the time of the gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and Phil Coe?
- What can you tell me about U.S. Army scout Al Sieber?
- “A Glorious Sight to See”
- Trailing John Wesley Powell
- Leadville, Colorado
- Hardy as Bears
- America’s Best Train Experience
- Train Towns
- Can you tell me more about Bill Miner, whose life story is the basis for the Canadian film The Grey Fox?