Historian Dr. Larry Len Peterson’s tenth book, American Trinity: Jefferson, Custer, and the Spirit of the West (Sweetgrass Books, $34.95), is his most comprehensive—and inspired—to date.
Dr. Peterson, who is also an award-winning physician and scientist of dermatology, has spent more than a decade researching and writing wha

December 2017
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Aimee Semple McPherson Part I
- The Day the Train Rolled into Phoenix
- The Day the Steel Rails Reached Tucson
- Territorial Justice
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Northern Prairie and Plains
- The Great Swindler James Addison Reavis
- A Bad Customer
- The Last Territorial Acquisition
- What Happened to the Remains of the Alamo Defenders After They Were Burned Following the 1836 Battle?
- Arizona Charlie
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Pacific Coast
- The Earps Raise a Behan
- Johnny Lingo: Tis the Season
Departments
- Who played Johnny Ringo in Tombstone? And do you think the real Ringo took his own life?
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Southern Prairie and Plains
- Surviving a Meal in Dodge City
- What is a Red River Cart?
- Hancock’s War
- Western Events for December 2017
- Is Tombstone home to two Boothills?
- Jerked to Jesus
- What History Has Taught Me: Reba McEntire
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Great Basin and Rocky Mountains
- Red Ryder BB Gun
- The Bayou City
- An Unusual Scale
- Lincoln County’s New History
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Desert Southwest
- A Tol Tale of Texas