In 1879, Col. George Washington Miller with son, Joe, then age 11, rode across the Cherokee Outlet, looking for rangeland where they could run cattle.
Miller, originally from Kentucky, had already established an operation in Kansas and northeastern Indian Territory.
The Outlet—60 miles wide and 180 miles long—stretched across Indian Territory along the border with Kansas and was a place where

July/August 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Rock Art Along the Way
- Albuquerque in Our Time
- Albuquerque Remembered
- Wanted: Undead or Alive
- Desperadoes
- Redemption
- Curse of the Sacred Mountain
- “What Fresh Hell is This?”
- Sanctuary Ranch (Fiction)
- Nickel-Plated Dream (Fiction)
- Military Chronicler
- An Untraditional, Quirky Western
- Cherokee Rose (Fiction)
- The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion (Fiction)
- The Desert Southwest (Nonfiction)
- The Doctor Wore Petticoats (Nonfiction)
- The Oatman Massacre (Nonfiction)
- God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West (Nonfiction)
More In This Issue
- I read somewhere that Wyatt Earp married a Jewish woman. Did he ever convert to Judaism?
- Can you tell me the name of the movie starring Clint Walker as Killer Caine? He played an old-time gunman who went to prison for killing a man; when he was released, he was much changed.
- Can you describe a typical day in the life of a person traveling via covered wagon to Oregon or California from Missouri?
- Was a complete version of George W. Parsons’ diary of his time in Tombstone ever published? I think it would make a great read.
- Lonesome Dove Guest Ranch
- Dudes and Dudettes Inspire!
- The Underdogs
- Silver City, New Mexico
- From Homesteaders to Wolfers
- Dude! Where’s My Ranch?
- The Best Bad Things
- Moonlight and Skies
- Living With the Land
- The Turquoise Trail
- Hardin’s Hardware
- Saturday Matinee
- Eleven Stories
- Between The Two
- Is there any truth to the story about cowboys who dug up a corpse and poured whiskey down his throat?
- Who was Arizona’s first famous show biz personality?
- Passin’ Through Louis L’Amour Land