Lots of locales in the United States have good reason to celebrate or commemorate the month of March.
It was March 2 of 1836 when Texas declared its independence from Mexico in the midst of the standoff at The Alamo. Sadly, on March 6, 1836, Santa Anna and his 3,000 Mexican soldiers, after 13 days of fighting, beat 182 Texans at the Alamo. Another massacre befell Texans on March 27, 1836—Palm Sunday. At least 342 were executed by Santa Anna firing squads at Goliad. This incident joined the

April 2017
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- The Luckiest Woman in America
- Between Yellowstone and Glacier, 3 Must-See Mining Ghost Towns
- Guns, Indians and the West
- Love The Hair, Sweetie
- Sink or Swim
- Colorful Phrases of the West
- An Exercise in Monotony
- Lessons From The Stagecoach
- A Biographer’s Take on Doc & Wyatt
- Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp
- When Doc Met Wyatt
- Globe, Arizona
- What’s Actor Dennis Weaver’s Story?
- Bucking Broncos and Breaking Barriers
- Bandit Queen Belle Starr
- Plump, Plumper, Plumpest
- Get Your Kicks on Route 66 with Doc and Wyatt
- Cyclone Bill
- The Loneliest Road to Old West History
- Laudanum In The Old West
- “Duck You, Sucker!”
- A Toast to Gold: 150 Years Later
- Road to Gold & Redemption
- Mexican Food: An Arizona Favorite
- The Nation Marched Forward During March
- The Dead Man In The Picture
- Texas Feud
- A Grave Discovery
- The Birth of a Wicked Son Reimagined
- Oh Annie, You Really Showed ‘Em
- What Music Did Gen. Santa Anna Request During The Alamo Battle?
- The Baca Float #5
- Stopping a Death Squad
- Guerrilla Warriors
- Roy Barcroft
- Hoot Gibson
Departments
- There’s Copper in Them Thar Hills
- Classic Gunfights: Doc Hits Bottom (but not much else)
- The Picnic Disease
- Why Do Western Actors Rarely Wear Spurs On Screen?
- What History Has Taught Me: Gary L. Roberts
- Did Old West Trains Have Bathrooms?
- How Did “Killer” Jim Miller Escape Justice For So Long?
- Hell on the Buffalo Range
- Did The “Buntline Special” Gun Really Exist?
- A First for Custer Firearms
- The Tombstone Collector