“Aim at a high mark” was the motto adopted (even copyrighted) by the legendary female sharpshooter Annie Oakley, reflecting her lifelong quest for excellence in shooting, as well as in her personal life. It could be said that the Marlin Firearms Co. has produced firearms that shot for the same high mark as Annie Oakley’s. She not only used several various Marlins, she was one of the company’s favorite shooters, having been gifted with at least two highly ornate presentation rifles by
March 2010
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Overnight Success When Hauling
- Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains
- The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900
- Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-1890
- A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—the Last Great Battle of the American West
- How Hollywood Saved the Durango & Silverton
- Custer Survivor
- The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History
- Yahsi Bati
- Sweetgrass
- Gunless
- Laurie’s Wild West
- On the Set of The Gundown
More In This Issue
- McKinney Meets His Maker
- Cherokee Nation’s Tahlequah, Oklahoma
- What is a Club Room?
- What was the make of revolver used by Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider?
- Do you believe the story that Jesse James met Billy the Kid in 1879?
- What was a typical breakfast in the Old West?
- What can you tell me about Canyon Diablo, Arizona?
- How common was locoweed poisoning in the Old West?
- Jeff Hildebrandt
- Living Like the Boggs
- A Grave Matter for Mattie Earp
- The Russian River’s Redwoods
- The Sharpshooter’s Choice
- The Pony Rides Again, 150 Years Later
- Sacred Ground
- Sawbones, Literally
- Sunday Dinner
- Sons of the Pioneers Spice Up Music Auction
- Surviving Festival of the West
- Horse Romance