I haven’t seen fog this thick since ... well, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen fog this thick, unless you count the time I walked into the room across the hall at my college dorm, and that fog wasn’t, ahem, natural. This is the kind of fog you expect to find on the coast, in London, in a horror movie or Casablanca, not traveling along U.S. Highway 385 in eastern Colorado where my handy-dandy Rand McNally tells me the only water to find is at places with names like Landsman ... South Fork of
September 2007
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Legacy of the Tetons: Homesteading in Jackson Hole
- Seven Trails West
- The Cherokee Trail of Tears
- The Flintlock: Its Origin, Development, and Use
- Cowboys & Aliens
- Supernatural Snipes
- Ford at Fox
- Atascocita Gold
- Blood Trail to Kansas
- The English Horses
- For the Love of a Horse
- Legend and Lore of the Guadalupe Mountains
- The Decoy
- The Outlaw
- Braver than John Wayne?
- Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip
- Sometimes The Blues
- Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
- Vote Longmire for Sheriff
- Not So Lonesome
- Raven Springs
- Passion and Principle
- Alex Swan and the Swan Companies
- The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76
- California Badmen
- The Secret War For Texas
- The Look of the Old West
- The Great Houses of Chaco
- A Fistful of DVDs
- The Year the Stars Fell
- Courting Trouble
- The Vengeance Brand
- To Tame A Land
- WAYNE’S WORLD
- Gary Cooper MGM Movie Legends Collection
- When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
- DEADWOOD: The complete Third Season
- Writing the Wicked West
More In This Issue
- Salt Siege Shoot-out
- Preservation: James-Younger Gang Returns to Northfield
- Be Like Remington
- Following 19th-Century Ute Trails
- One victim of the Lincoln County War was Morris Bernstein. Who was he?
- I’m reading a book that claims Old West pimps were called Pi’s. Is that pronounced like Pees or Pies?
- Audrey Hepburn vs. Billy Bob Thornton
- Harvey House Hero
- Remembering Mountain Meadows
- “Hoppy’s Favorite” Six-Guns
- Wanted: Riders for the Pony
- Winnemucca, Nevada
- Why did Mountain Men prefer riding mules over horses? And how come the Indians never rode mules?
- What can you tell me about the Western writer William W. Johnstone?
- While traveling through southern New Mexico and Arizona, I saw signs for “The Thing.” What is it?
- In some Westerns, characters hang a dead man’s gun and holster on a crudely made cross marking his grave. Did they really do that in the old days?
- Preservation: Saving the Sheriff
- The Battle of Big Dry Wash
- On Oklahoma’s Centennial Trail
- Who Killed Col. Fountain?
- Remembering Mountain Meadows
- The Bad Man from Bodie
- Music That Ain’t Country (Let Alone Western)
- Fort Stanton’s Angel
- Virginia City, Montana
- I can’t locate a copy of Richard O’Connor’s Bat Masterson book, listed in the credits of the TV series starring Gene Barry. Is there another biography I can buy?
- My SASS friends and I disagree. I say chinks were not worn by working cowboys in the 1890s. I believe they were show wear for riders during the late 1940s. Can you settle this?
- Most Hollywood movies end with the good guys winning and the bad guys in jail or dead. How true is that to the Old West?
- True West calls the Tombstone battle the “Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral,” while Earp historian Allen Barra calls it the “Street Fight in Tombstone.” How did people in the 19th century refer to it?
- The Beecher’s Island Boys
- Rock Island’s Rare Rig
- In the Old West, did men carrying six-shooters leave one chamber empty as a safety measure?
- UPDATES: The Lone Bandit and Shalako