So, if you choose to make this 287-mile historical adventure across the state (which, by the way, offers a view of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the USA) paralleling the Pony Express trail, here is what you will experience. But before you start—keeping “survival” in mind—have your car engine tuned, tires checked, have a full tank of gas (fill it every chance you get) and always keep a couple of quarts of drinking water with you at all times. Nevada State Railroad Museum Let’

November/December 2010
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Trailer Safety
- 1929’s Hell’s Heroes
- Streets of Laredo/Dead Man’s Walk
- The Last of the Mohicans
- What the Cowboy Life Taught Raoul Walsh
- Grand Theft Stagecoach
- Ghost Town Travelogues
- The Cowgirl Way
- In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark
- Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill
- Outlaw Tales of Nebraska
- Forts, Fights, and Frontier Sites
More In This Issue
- Wham, Bam, Thank You Uncle Sam!
- Elk City, Oklahoma
- Bob Stinson
- Ranch Riding on Hawaii’s Big Island
- A New-Old Needle Gun
- On the Cheyenne Heritage Trail
- A View of Vasquez
- Cake Was His Last Meal
- Dust, Death and Disability
- Buckles: The Cowboy Calling Card
- Hauser’s Story Finds its Heartbeat
- Why are smaller wheels on the front of stagecoaches and wagons?
- Are the wooden hitching posts in frontier towns pure Hollywood?
- How common were stagecoach robberies in the Old West?
- Did jail cells in Westerns always have a window to an alley?
- Did Old West folks wear sunglasses?
- Did 19th-century U.S. soldiers carry military ID cards?
- What are the odds that an Old West cowboy would get into a gunfight?
- The Truth to Chaco Canyon
- The Seeds of Navajo Soul