Geography furnishes us with the underpinnings of history. This book merges those two disciplines and adds a third: biography. We follow the expansion of the U.S. by means of surveys and maps, but also through the career of our greatest early surveyor. Andrew Ellicott not only ran the lines of our southern and northern borders, but he also confirmed our western boundary on the Mississippi by pressuring the stubborn Spanish to withdraw their troops from forts at Natchez and Vicksburg. Ellicott

October 2007
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Married to the Camera
- True tales of the Prairies & Plains
- Indian war veterans
- Frontier Justice in the Wild West
- The Gambler and the Bug boy
- New indians, Old Wars
- Four and twenty photographs
- The Fabric of America
- Blackfoot War Art
- 3:10 to Yuma, on Track?
- My Dear Tom Mix
- Good Luck Dogged My Trail
- Avenging Victorio
- Revenge & Redemption
- The Comic Named Man With No Name
- Appa-palooza
- Hundred in the Hand
- Fancy Pants
- Gunsmoke: The First Season
More In This Issue
- Campfire Shoot-Out
- John Colter’s Favorite Mistake
- Preservation:Earp—All in the Family
- Off the Reservation, the Range, the Ranch and the Regular
- In the movie Tombstone, Wyatt steps off the train wearing square-toed boots. Aren’t those a 1970’s invention?
- Buffalo Bill’s Wild Bunch
- Ranchers vs. Army
- Wyeth Sets Record with Hickok Oil
- The Good, the Bad at the O.K. Corral
- On the inside page of Ross Santee’s Cowboy, the dedication reads, “For Shorty Caraway—Top Hand.” What do you know about the author or Shorty?
- Did Old West lawmen write a police blotter? Or was it more like a journal?
- Did steamboats bring passengers and supplies from California to Arizona?
- What can you tell me about William T. Phillips, who claimed to be Butch Cassidy in the early 1920s?
- A Phoenix newspaper once reported on the rampant violence, murders and mayhem in Two Guns, Arizona. What books tell the history of this town?
- Denton, Texas
- Salt Siege Shoot-out
- Preservation: James-Younger Gang Returns to Northfield
- Be Like Remington