Listening to slick, highly produced Bluegrass leaves you stone cold. That’s not how you’ll feel when you slip Steep Canyon Rangers’ One Dime at a Time into your CD player. Listening to Jerry Chestnut’s classic mid-1960s smash hit, The Band’s “Evangeline” or the Rangers’ own tracks, it’s hard not to notice each song’s verve. For traditional-sounding Bluegrass, just pop “two dollars in the jukebox, one dime at a time.” —Chris Wienk
May 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Scorched Earth
- Sheriff Harvey Whitehill, Silver City Stalwart
- The Conquest of Texas: Ethic Cleansing in the Promised Land
- Imagining the African American West
- Gunsmoke: an American Institution
- Hidden Treasures of the American West
- Blood Debt
- Rekindled
- Pot Luck
- Spooky Texas Tales
- Guarding the Overland Trails
- Crusaders of the Sagebrush
- PBS Cowboys Up with Texas Ranch House
- It’s Gotta Be the Choctaws
More In This Issue
- Mail-Order Brides
- Spicing Up Your Kitchen
- The Old Military Post Road
- Tragic Powwow
- Collecting the West Roundup 2005
- Prices Ride Tall in the Saddle
- Live at the Parlor
- The Wagon Master
- Will you help me out? For over 40 years, I’ve been trying to figure out this Steve McQueen line from my favorite Western, The Magnificent Seven: “It took me a long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock.”
- I’ve concluded that the James-Younger Gang got more than $52,000 in about 12 years. What do you suppose they did with it? I was also wondering why Frank James, who lived until 1915, didn’t share more about the gang’s doings
- What is a needle gun?
- In Bandolero!, Sheriff July Johnson has the same name/role as he does in Lonesome Dove. Do you know what the correlation is?
- After the Northfield, Minnesota, bank robbery, a photo of Cole Younger shows his right eye swollen shut. What caused that injury?
- What can you tell me about Jeff Milton, who supposedly said, “I never killed a man who didn’t need killing?”
- Call Me Lonesome
- Crashyertown
- The Hanging Judge’s Town
- The Wild West
- Hacienda Brothers
- Playing for Change
- One Dime at a Time
- A few years ago, a TV Western aired with a character named Bill Longley. He was dressed in a white shirt, black pants and a black hat, and rode a black and white horse. Was there a real Bill Longley?