Western Books Crossing My Path
My mailboxes (real and virtual) have been filling up with news, notes and announcements of the end of 2020 books and 2021’s first quarter releases, and I’m thrilled to say it looks like it is going to be a great year for Western history and fiction fans. One great surprise was a Bass Reeves novel from 2018, Bass Reeves: The Buffalo Marshal by Hobart Carraway Jr. (self-published, $12.99) and the first volume in a new fiction series on invincible Arkansas lawman

True West February/March 2021
In This Issue:
Features
- Bass Reeves: The Invincible Lawman
- Classic Gunfights: A Deadly Duel at 500 Yards
- Was Wyatt Earp Really a Deputy U.S. Marshal?
- Man with a Badge
- Bass Reeves and Hollywood
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2021
- Once And For All, Is The Lone Ranger Based on Bass Reeves?
- Wheels to Fortune
- Truth Be Known
- Opening Shot – A Mammoth Moment
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Boring History? Not the Way We Tell It
- Cowboy Guns for Self Defense?
- Classic Gunfights: A Deadly Duel at 500 Yards
- Forgotten Hero of Denali
- Ask the Marshall – Bat Masterson: Armed and Dangerous
- Western Roundup: Feb/March 2021
- The Thrifty Frontier Kitchen
- William Henry Jackson’s West
- What History Has Taught Me: L. J. Martin
- Lincoln: Prepare Ye the Way for the Horde
- Shooting Back