Strangely, the Blu-ray package of Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans does not have the isolated musical track that accompanied the 2001 DVD package. (Fans really dug Trevor Jones’s and Randy Edelman’s split score.) But the strange history of this movie and its digital incarnations only start there. When a director monkeys with a subsequent version of his film, he usually does so to fix something—an edit, a flubbed overdub—or to take advantage of newer technologies, as George Lu

November/December 2010
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Trailer Safety
- 1929’s Hell’s Heroes
- Streets of Laredo/Dead Man’s Walk
- The Last of the Mohicans
- What the Cowboy Life Taught Raoul Walsh
- Grand Theft Stagecoach
- Ghost Town Travelogues
- The Cowgirl Way
- In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark
- Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill
- Outlaw Tales of Nebraska
- Forts, Fights, and Frontier Sites
More In This Issue
- Wham, Bam, Thank You Uncle Sam!
- Elk City, Oklahoma
- Bob Stinson
- Ranch Riding on Hawaii’s Big Island
- A New-Old Needle Gun
- On the Cheyenne Heritage Trail
- A View of Vasquez
- Cake Was His Last Meal
- Dust, Death and Disability
- Buckles: The Cowboy Calling Card
- Hauser’s Story Finds its Heartbeat
- Why are smaller wheels on the front of stagecoaches and wagons?
- Are the wooden hitching posts in frontier towns pure Hollywood?
- How common were stagecoach robberies in the Old West?
- Did jail cells in Westerns always have a window to an alley?
- Did Old West folks wear sunglasses?
- Did 19th-century U.S. soldiers carry military ID cards?
- What are the odds that an Old West cowboy would get into a gunfight?
- The Truth to Chaco Canyon
- The Seeds of Navajo Soul