Loretta Veach, founder and owner of Mojave Drums in Meadview, Arizona, says “rhythm is something that all people have inside them.” And she’s willing to prove it at one of her drum camps, held in the shadow of the Grand Wash Cliffs, near Lake Mead (off U.S. 93 between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Kingman, Arizona). If you attend (accommodations are tents, RVs or area motels), Loretta will not only teach you how to make a hand-held drum from a gourd, but she and her staff will also guide you a

May 2004
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- Rock Creek Killfest
- Is it true that you can fire multiple shots from a percussion cap pistol if you don’t grease the lead when you load it into the cylinder?
- Patton’s Peacemaker Blazes Again
- Mojave Drums
- Kirk Ratajesak
- All This Way for the Short Ride
- Custer Battlefield Museum
- Did Davy Really Die?
- Bird’s-eye View of 19th-century Mining
- Spittin’ Against the Wind
- Do any of the guns used in the gunfight near the O.K. Corral exist? If so, where are they?
- Did any Old West ranchers ever try to raise buffalo with their cattle?
- What is the name of the horse Teddy Roosevelt rode during the Battle of San Juan Hill?
- Why was John Johnson dug up in 1974 from the old soldiers home graveyard in Los Angeles, California, and reburied in Cody, Wyoming?
- Christina Hillius
- Vera and the Sultan
- Two Fingers, Straight Up
- Sings in Color