With the flood of Lewis and Clark tomes in the past year, it is quite refreshing to read William Hill’s latest book. As with his previous books, Hill brings his trademark “You are There” style to this unique account of the frontier exploration. Hill’s use of actual drawings, coupled with modern photographs, portray a panorama of the frontier and a real sense of then and now. Precise documentation of technology, biology and human nature add to this all-in-one accounting. A must

January/February 2005
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Lost to History
- Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens
- .45-Caliber Revenge
- Across the Kansas Prairie
- Plain Language
- Beauty for Ashes
- Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
- Cowboys Who Rode Proudly
- Bits & Spurs: Motifs, Techniques and Modern Makers
- The Lewis & Clark Trail: Yesterday and Today
- Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers
- The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915
- On a Silver Desert
- In His Blood
- Boone’s Lick
- Skeletons of the Sahara
More In This Issue
- Putting the Western Back in the Country
- “Saddle Up!”
- The House that Cash Built Sells High
- Colt Revolver Cylinder Scenes
- Open Road…In the Life
- Old Friends
- A Tribute to Jimmy Martin “The King of Bluegrass”
- A Ballad of the West: Songs From the Epic Trilogy
- In Her Daddy’s Footsteps
- Following Billy the Kid
- Down on Lewis & Clark
- Saddling Up in Style