The story goes that Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman was tracking the Doolin Gang in January 1895. He entered a dugout on the Dunn ranch, looking for the outlaws. Several gang members, hidden behind blankets, leveled Winchesters at Tilghman—but Doolin himself stopped them from shooting the lawman in the back.
It didn’t happen. Remnants of the dugout show it was too small for a man to stand in. And f

June 2017
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
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- Bust Cream, Anyone?
- Life and Death on the Fur Trade Frontier
- Paranoia Takes Jim Murhpy
- The Cheapskate of All Time
- The Horseless Carriage Was Seriously Underestimated
- Shopping from Home in 1897 with Sears Roebuck
- Outselling the Best Sellers–Sears Roebuck
- Mattie Summerhayes: An Army Bride from New England Follows the Guidon
- The Osage, Oil and the FBI
- While on a Cattle Drive, Did Cowboys Wear Their Handguns or Store Them?
- A Western Shootist is Born
- The Secret Artillery
- Good for a Laugh… and a Shiver
- The Western War Between the States
- She Was the Best Man of the Party
- A Preacher Comes to Helldorado: Part III
- Western Wisdom Worth Remembering
- What Happened to the Guns Used in the Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral?
- You Tell ‘Em Girl
- Johnny Lingo: Arbuckles’, Bean Masters & Boiled Strawberries
- A Preacher Comes to Helldorado: Part II
- Rosebud Gets No Respect
- Mapping Our Way
- A Preacher Comes to Helldorado: Part I
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Howard Kazanjian
- Why Are Old West Figures Portrayed in Such Black-and-White Terms—Either They’re All Good or All Bad?
- On Walker, Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris Had a Recurring Role, Told via Flashbacks, as 19th Century Texas Ranger Hayes Cooper. Did Such a Man Exist?
- Dinner in Deadwood with Calamity Jane
- The Battle of Turkey Creek Canyon
- Western Events for June 2017
- Did Any Indian Tribes Break Treaties the Way the U.S. Government Did?
- Colt’s Paterson—the Foaling of a Legend
- A Woman’s Work is Never Done
- Did Augustine Chacon Kill 52 Men?