My favorite Park Ranger uniform is the pants, long-sleeved shirt, “Ike” jacket and cross tie.
Is the National Park Service (NPS) unique in the world? For years, the world looked to the U.S. for leadership in managing national parks. Sometime in the mid-1980s, NPS stopped providing advice, assistance and financial help. When I attended the World Congress on National Parks in 1992, other nations wondered out loud why the U.S. had fallen into the background and even embarrassed other countri

January/February 2008
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Major Dundee
- Gall: Lakota War Chief (Nonfiction)
- Redemption Falls (Fiction)
- Baby Doe Tabor (Nonfiction)
- How to Yodel (Nonfiction)
- Nez Perce Country (Nonfiction)
- The Good News, Bad News No Country
- Requiem for Billy the Kid
- Petra’s Legacy (Nonfiction)
- Drifting West (Nonfiction)
- Migration Patterns (Fiction)
- Brujerias (Fiction)
- Ride the Trail of Death (Fiction)
- Blood of Bass Tillman (Fiction)
- Sitting Bull Remembers
More In This Issue
- Hidden Treasure in Engineer Mountain
- Garrett’s Death Site Saved
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2008
- Saving Dalton Days
- Can you recommend a reference book on Old West firearms?
- What happened to Davy Crockett’s rifle “Beautiful Betsy?”
- What is cowboy artist Jo Mora’s backstory?
- Did citizens lynch criminals in the West?
- What can you tell me about cowboy actor Tim McCoy?
- Do Indians not have facial hair?
- Is “remada” an English derivative of the Spanish word remuda?
- Top 10 Things to Do in El Paso
- Preservation: History Up in Smoke
- The First Western Holster
- Tombstone, Arizona
- Sweetwater Shoot-out
- Melody Webb
- On the Trail of Sheriff Pat Garrett
- Gutshot!
- What Have You Heard, Shane?
- Did gunfighters carve notches in their guns?
- True West’s Best of the West 2008 Winners