Towns You Should Know
BUFFALO, WY
A real Wild West town now preserved as a historic district. You can stay at the Occidental Hotel, which hosted Butch and Sundance, Calamity Jane and President Teddy Roosevelt.
ELLENSBURG, WA
The National Trust for Historic Preservation named this central Washington town as one of its Dozen Distinctive Destinations in 2007—the downtown historic district looks pretty much the same as it did in the early 1890s.
EL PASO, TX
A unique place where H

January/February 2008
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Major Dundee
- Gall: Lakota War Chief (Nonfiction)
- Redemption Falls (Fiction)
- Baby Doe Tabor (Nonfiction)
- How to Yodel (Nonfiction)
- Nez Perce Country (Nonfiction)
- The Good News, Bad News No Country
- Requiem for Billy the Kid
- Petra’s Legacy (Nonfiction)
- Drifting West (Nonfiction)
- Migration Patterns (Fiction)
- Brujerias (Fiction)
- Ride the Trail of Death (Fiction)
- Blood of Bass Tillman (Fiction)
- Sitting Bull Remembers
More In This Issue
- Hidden Treasure in Engineer Mountain
- Garrett’s Death Site Saved
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2008
- Saving Dalton Days
- Can you recommend a reference book on Old West firearms?
- What happened to Davy Crockett’s rifle “Beautiful Betsy?”
- What is cowboy artist Jo Mora’s backstory?
- Did citizens lynch criminals in the West?
- What can you tell me about cowboy actor Tim McCoy?
- Do Indians not have facial hair?
- Is “remada” an English derivative of the Spanish word remuda?
- Top 10 Things to Do in El Paso
- Preservation: History Up in Smoke
- The First Western Holster
- Tombstone, Arizona
- Sweetwater Shoot-out
- Melody Webb
- On the Trail of Sheriff Pat Garrett
- Gutshot!
- What Have You Heard, Shane?
- Did gunfighters carve notches in their guns?
- True West’s Best of the West 2008 Winners