He sat motionless, starin’ ahead, aware of everythin’ around him. In this country, patience meant survival. Too often, the first to move became the first to die.
Crossin’ U.S. 550 can be a bitch.
Seein’ a quick openin’, he gunned across the intersection and found his way to downtown Durango, Western town, tourist town, train town and the Colorado mountain burg where the man he chased once hung his hat.
The man he chased was legend. Louis L’Amour, teller of tales, mostly

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