When folks ask me about the goals I have as the U.S. Congress’s “Foremost Custer Living Historian,” I tell them that, in addition to reading the literature he had in his personal library, I want to visit all the sites Custer saw in his lifetime. Jeff Barnes’s 230-page book The Great Plains Guide to Custer has taken me a little closer to what Barnes describes as “a place among those who know the stories or are learning them and now want to see and enjoy the land that Custer wal

April 2012
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Traveling Through History
- Wild Bunch Territory
- Tracking the Texas Rangers
- Gold Coast’s Badmen
- Doc Holliday Slept Here
- Custer & Cody Country
- Cathouse Melee
- Cowboys & Cowtowns
- April 2012 Events
- In the Nov/Dec. 2011 issue, I told readers a possible reason why Geronimo was holding two sticks was so he could steady the gun while firing. Reader David West has shared another explanation:
- Who was the man Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed in Abilene, Kansas?
- Why did some vaquero saddles have dinner plate-type saddle horns?
- How successful were traveling entertainers in the Old West?
- The John Wayne Memorabilia exhibit in Los Angeles featured his costume trousers with sewed-on belt loops. Aren’t belt loops an early 20th-century development?
- Did Arizona ever list train robbery as a capital offense?
- John Fusco
- 10 for 10: Bismarck, ND
- Supersized in San Antonio
- Unsinkable Margaret Brown
- Snake River Salmon
- Paramount’s Golden Boy
- Gary Ernest Smith
- Following Sibley’s Confederate Invasion
- Head Over Heels
- Viva Villa!
- Hardin’s Deadly Tools