Here’s gunplay, violence and crackling drama on a larger scale than any other robbery pulled by the James-Younger Gang. These firsthand accounts of the most ambitious yet foolhardy robbery in frontier history ricochets across the pages in a deadly reflection of that explosive fall day of September 7, 1876. We hear the voices of Lizzie May Heywood, the five-year-old daughter of slain bank bookkeeper Joseph Heywood, to Cole Younger and his brothers Jim and Bob to Frank and Jesse James and Ade
July 2007
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Best Reads (And They Aren’t All Westerns)
- Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger
- A Ranger War & Billy the Kid
- A People at War
- The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
- On the Wrong Track
- Hunt Down
- Northfield
- People of the Nightland
- Whips of the West
- The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska
- Wild Ride
- Tìo Cowboy
- Storytelling in Yellowstone
- Rio Bravo Still Sings
- Seraphim Falls
- A Girl is a Gun
More In This Issue
- A Tragic End to a Classic Cowgirl
- Civil War in the West
- Preservation: Song Of Praise
- Silver City Shoot-Out
- Rifle Packin’ in the Old West
- The Beecher’s Island Boys
- In 1969’s Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, are the characters Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore based on real people?
- Did cowboys in the Old West really wear that much clothes, even on sunny days?
- Where is Wyatt Earp’s second “wife,” Mattie Blaylock, buried?
- What’s the difference between an Old West marshal and a sheriff?
- Why do so many Westerns show bacon and beans as the campfire meal? And how did the characters cook the beans so fast?
- Did Bat Masterson actually have to use a cane after being shot by Sgt. Melvin King in 1876, or is this just part of the legend?
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
- Casa de Adobe
- Mining Vs. Ranching