Towns to Watch TOMBSTONE, AZ One hundred-thirty years after the famous gunfight, Tombstone continues to be a tusslin’ town. Historians and merchants seem to be in a constant battle over preservation and accuracy, and tourism and money. But folks, led by the city and the chamber of commerce, came together in 2010 to reopen the 1882 courthouse, which the state had closed due to budget cuts. Tombstone is, once again, the “Town Too Tough to Die.” ENCAMPMENT, WY Trappers rendezvoused here at

January/February 2011
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Apache: 1861-1880
- Red Cloud’s War
- From Cochise to Geronimo
- Cave Rock
- War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
- The Killing of Crazy Horse
- Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War
- Myth, Memory and Massacre
- All of My People Were Killed
- Plains Indians Regalia & Customs
- Building One Fire: Art and World View in Cherokee Life
More In This Issue
- About how many cowboys came through a cattle town each season?
- What’s the story of the doc who killed gunfighter Dallas Stoudenmire?
- How did Tucson become such a lawless place before, during and after the Civil War?
- How successful were traveling salesmen in the Old West?
- Why wasn’t James Earp a major player in the Tombstone troubles in the early 1880s?
- What do you know about the photo of Billy the Kid in the Caldwell, Kansas, museum?
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2011
- True West’s Best of the West 2011 Winners
- There Will Be War!
- John Wayne’s Wild West
- 1972’s Junior Bonner
- Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary
- Red Hill
- Old and New Kids of True Grit
- Jeb Rosebrook
- Riding Toward the Chuck
- A Giant of a Gun
- Following the Trail of Quanah Parker
- Rescuing a State Park
- A Sweet Search for History
- Lead and Negligees for Breakfast?
- Frontier Headache
- Sweethearts of the Rodeo
- Religion Against Profit
- Cut the Tent, Unleash the War
- That Other Rooster Cogburn