As an attempt to raise Tom Logan to the level of Wyatt Earp and other legendary Old West lawmen, this book falls short, as there is little to elevate Logan above the typical county sheriff. But Jackie Boor’s Logan: The Honorable Life and Scandalous Death of a Western Lawman does offer a wide-ranging history of Tonopah and Nye County, Nevada, around the turn of the 20th century. Chronicled are lawmen, outlaws, lawyers, bartenders, businessmen, pianists, prostitutes, politicians and others. W
November 2014
In This Issue:
More In This Issue
- Galen Clark
- The Second Harry Tracy
- When Billy the Kid Was Billie the Kid
- Biggest Nugget in the Black Hills
- Six Classic Gunfights
- Did Kit Carson Win at Adobe Walls?
- Wild Bill’s Last Fight
- Dead Wrong About Cattle Kate
- Cowtown to Boomtown
- What happened to Old West gunman “Mysterious” Dave Mather?
- Galen Clark
- THE MONOGRAM COWBOY COLLECTION, VOLUME 5
- In the cowboy song “Old Paint,” the singer sings, “I lead an old Dan,” that he’s on his way to Montana to “throw the hoolihan” and that the “fiery and snuffy are a-rarin’ to go.” What do hoolihan, Dan, fiery and snuffy mean?
- The Real and Imagined Life of Calamity Jane
- Clu Gulager
- Trail of Tragedy
- Billy the Kid’s Legendary La Placita
- Revisiting Classic Western Fiction
- Life of a Nevada Sheriff
- How many trail drivers were needed on a cattle drive?
- What was the fate of the animals that were used in Wild West shows when the shows closed down?
- What were some popular drinks in the Old West saloons?
- November Events 2014
- The Heart of the Movie
- Arizona Historians Survive Cutback
- Lobsters on the Frontier
- Six-Gun Safety
- No End to its Trail
- Klondike Kickstarter
- The Last Shootist: A Classic Tale of the Wild West
- True West’s “Old West Savior” Lynda A. Sánchez Shares Her Love of Good Books
- Rough Drafts 11/14