Summer along the lower Colorado River is hot. Come July or August, 123 degrees in the shade is common around Lake Mohave. And that Lake Mohave country is as treacherous as it gets. You can be riding along and suddenly the ground will just open into a canyon or a cliff that takes you hours to get around. Then you look back and you aren’t 100 yards from where you started three miles before. But in the back of your mind, there’s always that cool blue water that keeps pulling you to get a dri

February/March 2003
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- Recently I heard a story that Geronimo was once held in the jail at Fort Lowell (Tucson, AZ). Any truth to that?
- Oklahoma City—Where The Old West Lives
- Moving Along the Santa Fe Trail
- Painting Below the Belt
- My Lake Mohave Christmas Came Early
- My maternal grandmother was born in 1880 and grew up in Wyoming. She told me that when she was a very young girl she saw the body of Wild Bill Hickok, which was shown in a traveling show. Do you have any idea what the case may be?
- Do you pronounce rodeo “ro-dee-o” or “ro-day-o”?
- Where can I learn more about cattle driver Charlie Goodnight? Did he drive cattle on the Chisholm Trail or what trail?
- Could you give me some information on a Bud Ledbetter?
- Was Jesse James a Terrorist?