Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will encourage federal, state and local governments to continue funding such efforts, as well as alert some Western towns to the duty of rewarding its citizens and visitors alike with an outward showing of their historical relevance to this nation. 10. ST. JOSEPH, MO You might say that St. Joe is a city of beginnings and endings. The Pony Express got its start here in 1860; Jesse James died h

January/February 2007
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque
- Tales From the Journey of the Dead
- Discovering Natural Horsemanship
- Beyond the Missouri
- Oh, Give me a Home
- Bull by the Tale
- Noah’s Ride
- Dream Wheels
- Saint Patrick’s Battalion
- Western Film Noir Vol. 1
- Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
- Nobody’s Horses
- Digging Up Massacres
- Broken Trail
- Singing Cowboys
- Mexican Gold Trail
- The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men
- Guns of Vengance Trail
More In This Issue
- Zane Grey’s Arizona
- Party Like a Cowboy
- Don’t Miss the Party Train
- Zebulon Pike’s Wandering Explorations
- On a Mission in San Antone
- Top 10 Western Meals to Eat
- Range Story Tops Rare Book Sale
- On a Mission in San Antone
- Preservation: Indian Days of ’76 Rodeo
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2007
- Austin, Texas
- True West’s Best of the West 2007 Winners
- Screamin’ Sheb
- What was the largest outlaw gang—in terms of numbers of members—in the Old West? Butch & Sundance were hardly a gang, numbering a handful at most.
- Badges are traditionally placed on the left side of the chest, covering the heart. Why does a drawing of Marshal Henry Brown show a badge displayed on the right side in the September 2006 issue?
- In Custer, South Dakota, a downtown building sign states that it is the site of a saloon where Flyspeck Billy murdered Abe Barnes in February 1881. Can you tell me anything more about this?
- I’ve read that a cowboy worked “for forty (40) and found.”
- I read that an Arizona outlaw beat a check kiting charge by eating the evidence during the trial. True or false?
- In the Old West, did city marshals and county sheriffs have what we now call a police blotter?