March brings madness to the entire United States, where fools everywhere pay more attention to their NCAA college basketball bracket than Louis L’Amour’s birthday. Criminy, people should be thinking baseball; it’s spring training, when even the inept Houston Astros have a chance at a winning season. Plus, the Spur Awards—which have nothing to do with NBA All-Star Tim Duncan—will be announced by Western Writers of America. For the record, I hate basketball. James Naismith’s inventi

March 2014
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- Forrest Fenn, 2014 True Westerner Award Winner!
- Old Tucson’s 75th
- Autry’s Pathway to the Past
- Winchester Warrior
- American Gardens of Eden
- The Best Historical Roadside Markers You Have to See
- Following the Old Spanish Trail
- 10 Face-to-Face, Stand-Up Gunfights
- Jack London’s Alaska
- So who really killed Billy the Kid?
- What were authentic ranch houses like?
- Who were the most dangerous gunmen in the Old West?
- I enjoyed reading the November article on Soiled Doves, but nothing was mentioned about contraception. What did they do to prevent pregnancy?
- Dave Stamey
- March 2014 Events
- Tombstone, Arizona
- You Butter Believe It!
- March Madness
- The Last Bonanza Farm
- Beginning of the End
- Rough Drafts 3/14
- Ann Kirschner’s Favorite Reads
- Shadow on the Mesa
- Montana Divided and United
- A Ranch Woman’s Life
- The Real and Imagined West
- The Bronzed West
- An American Tale: Wild Mustangs and the Spirit of a Nation
- Universal’s 40th Discs