Louis L’Amour has thrilled countless readers with the adventures of Hondo, Jubal Sackett and Radigan. But the “Yondering Man” from North Dakota also published dozens of vivid short stories in the rousing days of the pulps. Using pseudonyms such as Louis D. Amour, his tales of distant lands ran in 10 Story Book, Thrilling Adventures and many other two-fisted magazines. His background as seaman, lumberjack, miner, circus roustabout and professional boxer—winner of 51 out of 59 fights—
April 2007
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Broken Trail Spin-Offs
- Moses Taite’s War
- An Endless Attraction to Billy
- From Hondo to Big Ike
- On Location!
- Great Train Robberies of the Old West
- Vengeance Moon
- Texas Showdown
- Under the Sunset Rim
- Sunset Trail
- The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
- Bandidas
- The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
- BALLOTS AND BULLETS: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
- Lone Star Lawman
- Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town
- Following the Royal Road
- Spreading the Word
- Give Me Mountains For My Horses
- The Train Man
- Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve
- Camino del Norte
- Heaven is a Long Way Off
- The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’amor: The Adventure Stories
- The Tobermory Manuscript
- The Hart Brand
- New Mexico Past and Future
- Devil’s Gate
- Gunsmoke: The Director’s Collection
- Legendary Outlaws
- Rock Hudson Screen Legend Collection
- Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier
- The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns
- A Time for Peace: Fort Lewis, Colorado, 1878-1891
- From Lead Mines to Gold Fields
More In This Issue
- One Man With Courage Makes A Majority
- Tracking the Great Bear
- No Compromise with War
- Ugly Ducklings of Frontier Six-shooters
- Preservation: Roll Along, Wagon Train
- Sacking Lawrence
- Queen of Country Swing’s Tough Mamas
- A Gun Exchanged for Billy the Kid’s Mare
- A Man That Won’t Bend
- Stories Behind the Song
- Trailing the First Indian Person
- What pistol did Wild Bill Hickok favor?
- What can you tell me about hat cords in the frontier military?
- If John Wayne was granted deferment from military service during WWII because he had a large family, wouldn’t this make him a draft dodger?
- What can you tell me about Cimarron, New Mexico?
- ATM Update: Hunnewell, KS
- St. Joseph, MO
- Trailing the First Indian Person
- Madonna of the Western Trails
- A Man That Won’t Bend
- Mellonsfolly’s Wild West
- “Western Movie” Night … at the Museum
- I’m making models of authentic Western homes/ranches. Can you tell me more about the use of glass in the Old West?
- Railroad’s First Lady
- Have Gun, Safe for Travel?
- Whiskey-Runnin’ Whoop-Up Trail
- Preservation: Depot Heroes
- Tom Horn Hits the Auction Block
- Is 1954’s Dawn at Socorro based on a true story?
- What shirts were popular in the Old West?
- Was Wyatt Earp as good a hero as we have been led to believe? I’ve read he was involved in a “gold brick” swindle. Can you tell me more about that scam?
- A family Bible belonging to the sister of Brushy Bill, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, listed his birth year as 1879. If this is true, then Brushy Bill couldn’t possibly be Billy the Kid, right?
- How did the term “cowpoke” come about?
- Wickenburg, Arizona
- Adair Before They Die