This is an interesting read on the history of Northern California in the words of the people who pioneered and settled the regions between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe. I especially enjoyed it because most of the book’s dialogue comes from letters and journals of the pioneers themselves. These firsthand accounts give the reader insight into what it was like to travel through and settle these then wild lands. Although poor choices were made in some of the fonts used, making reading a bit cum

April 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Searchers at 50
- THE TAOS TRAPPERS: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846
- From 9.11 to the Alamo
- The Golden Corridor
- CONTEMPORARY WESTERN DESIGN
- COLORADO’S JAPANESE AMERICANS: FROM 1886 TO THE PRESENT
- MORMON RESISTANCE
- GUNS OF THE WILD WEST
- OUTLAW TALES OF COLORADO
- DAKOTA
- OUTLAW’S BRAT
- Brush Country
More In This Issue
- Maze Creek Studio
- If the Bird Cage Theatre opened on Christmas day 1881, why does the movie Tombstone show characters at the Bird Cage prior to the October 1881 gunfight?
- Confessions of a Ghost Town Maniac
- Frontier Army’s First Pick
- Goliad, Texas
- Clark on the Yellowstone
- No Horsin’ Around on Billy’s Last Ride
- En Plein Air
- A Shoot-’em-up for Gamers
- I read somewhere that no legal agency ever put out wanted posters that stated, “Dead or Alive.” What’s the truth?
- The First Ronstadt Superstar
- Fillmore & Western Railway
- A museum in Jerome, Arizona, had a photograph of Pancho Villa standing by some mules pulling a water wagon. Did he really deliver water to the Jerome mines?
- What did drifting cowboys carry with them when they traveled?
- How did the Wyoming horse Steamboat get his name?
- Is the Maxwell building or ranch still standing where Billy the Kid was shot?
- What do you consider to be the most interesting events of the Old West?
- THE WHOLE ENCHILADA
- HONEYCOMB
- Wild West WOW!
- Simple Man
- CHERRYHOLMES
- The Moon was Blue
- BACK HOME IN SULPHUR SPRINGS
- I Believe