I reluctantly acquiesced to my wife Marcie’s idea that we take a steamboat cruise on the Mississippi River in 1998; I assumed it would be boring. We chose to dress in period-appropriate clothing—as a riverboat gambler and his lady. We had a ball! We enlightened our like-minded friends; then we thought, let’s organize trips so more people can enjoy this!
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June 2009
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Dark Border (Fiction)
- North Star (Fiction)
- Cowboy Park (Nonfiction)
- Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West (Nonfiction)
- Mormonism’s Last Colonizer (Nonfiction)
- The Last Indian War (Nonfiction)
- Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge (Nonfiction)
- Full-Court Quest (Nonfiction)
- Wallace Stegner and the American West (Nonfiction)
- Word Gets Around (Fiction)
- Buried Lies (Fiction)
- Western Writers Pick Top 100 Westerns
- Sam Houston: Standing Firm (Children’s Book)
More In This Issue
- Revisiting Lonesome Dove
- Two Oregon Naturals Make A Team
- Steve Shaw
- Shoot-Out at Cottonwood Springs?
- Preservation: Indians on the Internet
- Following Mountain Man Jim Bridger
- Good As Gold
- Gold Fever
- “Fight of My Life”
- Survival in the Cold Old West
- The Chuckwagon Cooky
- Collecting Geronimo
- Why are the rear wheels of stagecoaches larger than the front ones?
- What do we know about Lottie Deno?