Robert DeArment, the dean of outlaw-lawman historians, is still producing remarkable books at the age of 92. His latest, Man-Hunters of the Old West (University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95), is a fascinating look at eight men who helped to bring law and order to the West. A few are very well known—like detectives James Hume, Charlie Siringo and Jack Duncan. Several are not, including store clerk M.F. Leech, who chased the Joel Collins Gang (with Sam Bass) after it netted $50,000 in a Nebraska tr

August 2016
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
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- Outrunning the Apaches
- Crime Boss Vicente Silva
- Holbrook, Arizona
- Tales of a Legendary Western Life
- The Johnson County Invaders
- A Tall Bucking, 1881 Style
- Poet, Professor, Historian—his West Begins in the East
- The Bisbee Massacre
- Apache History from the Ndee
- The Most Significant July Event in Western History
- Wyatt Earp vs. a Tombstone Mob
Departments
- Why would a pile of small seashells be in the Arizona desert?
- Queen of the Cowtowns
- Tragic Fight on the Devil’s Backbone
- Western Events for August 2016
- On the Hunt for Geronimo
- A picture hanging in a restaurant in Prescott, Arizona, is labeled, “Wyatt Earp.” Is this a photo of him?
- The Myth of Whiskey
- Did Bat Masterson carry a cane?
- Building the Central Pacific Railroad
- Geronimo Prize Breaks Record
- Tombstone’s True Hero
- What is the origin of bib shirts?
- Butch Cassidy and the Last Standing Bank
- In the 1985 film Silverado, British-born John Cleese plays the sheriff. Did any Britons become frontier sheriffs in the USA?