Jerry Croft can be a stubborn cuss. Growing up in Michigan, he decided he was going to be a cowboy. There was just one problem. Everybody told him there weren’t any more cowboys. But he had to find out for himself; so after high school he headed to Arizona and b’golly, there were still cowboys there and he was determined to become one. He learned fast and from the best. Pretty soon he was working the famous Babbitt Ranch in Flagstaff, running rough string horses when that ranch had g

January/February 2005
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Lost to History
- Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens
- .45-Caliber Revenge
- Across the Kansas Prairie
- Plain Language
- Beauty for Ashes
- Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
- Cowboys Who Rode Proudly
- Bits & Spurs: Motifs, Techniques and Modern Makers
- The Lewis & Clark Trail: Yesterday and Today
- Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers
- The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915
- On a Silver Desert
- In His Blood
- Boone’s Lick
- Skeletons of the Sahara
More In This Issue
- Putting the Western Back in the Country
- “Saddle Up!”
- The House that Cash Built Sells High
- Colt Revolver Cylinder Scenes
- Open Road…In the Life
- Old Friends
- A Tribute to Jimmy Martin “The King of Bluegrass”
- A Ballad of the West: Songs From the Epic Trilogy
- In Her Daddy’s Footsteps
- Following Billy the Kid
- Down on Lewis & Clark
- Saddling Up in Style