Western art of the 1920-30s somehow awakens a degree of nostalgia in all of us, and there is plenty of it here. Artist Remington Schuyler (1884-1955) painted or illustrated everything from Boy Scout handbooks to the exciting covers of early Western pulp magazines. His art influenced the perceived images of heroic cowboys and brave women of the West, and many of his covers and miscellaneous pictures are exhibited in this volume. Also included in Schuyler’s biography are excerpts from some of

September 2006
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition
- John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection
- Larry McMurtry’s Creations
- Remington Schuyler’s West
- The Price of Pride
- The Rebel: Johnny Yuma
- The Saddlemaker’s Wife
- Stone Song
- History May be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
- The Day Coffeyville Bled
- Honest Horses
- The Texas Sheriff
- Making Home Work
- San Juan Bonanza
- An Outlaw’s Poet
- Island of Rotting Horses, 1868
More In This Issue
- I once read a book that stated about 400 deaths in the Old West were due to gunfights. Is this figure correct?
- Pendleton, Oregon
- Gold Rush Sale for Art Collectors
- Preservation: Call to Arms
- Art Trumps History Every Time
- Old Cowtown Museum
- Matriarch of the “Nudie Suit”
- Blazing the Mullan Road
- Doomed to Be an Artist
- Not Just a Dude’s Market Anymore
- Where the Buffalo Roam
- When were numbers and letters put on playing cards?
- What rodeo really holds the claim as the “World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo?”
- A huge debate I have with my pards is whether or not Hickok used a sash as a gunbelt. Will you settle this for us?
- Limiting ourselves to the American West and to the 1800s, what was the longest distance a herd was moved?
- Oftentimes, when older Westerns depict wagons or stagecoaches, only one set of wheel tracks are shown. Why is that?
- John Wayne and the Peacemaker
- Cassidy Country’s Cool
- Lawdogs Go South Henry Newton Brown’s Gang vs Medicine Lodge Cowboys