This is the 15th book in the North America’s Forgotten Past series. Co-authored by archaeologists living in Wyoming, these stories share the lives of prehistoric people living on the North American continent 14,000 years ago. In this installment, the Nightland people are battling a neighboring tribe while trying to escape a melting glacier threatening to destroy their home. Unfortunately, the Nightland characters never seem believable as cavemen. The story can get bogged down by the anthrop

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