Raised in Detroit, Michigan, and retired from teaching at the American University in Washington, D.C., Bob Love found himself linked to the West’s most storied locale, Tombstone, Arizona, when his father, Harold, with other investors, purchased the O.K. Corral in 1963. As the owner of the gunfight site, Bob works hard to respect the past, while also trying to appeal to a generation brought up on Facebook and cellphones. Like his father before him, Bob has a hand in helping keep Tombstone’s f

July 2017
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
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- The Legendary West
- Phoenix Gets a Name
- Charles Stevens
- Never Wasted a Bullet
- Joseph Lee Heywood, a Northfield Hero
- A Lyrical History of the West
- How Often Were Post Offices Robbed on the Frontier?
- Get a Grip, Cowboy
- What History Has Taught Me: Bob Love
- Frontier Reveille
- Johnny Lingo: In the Land of Pronunciation Legend Rules
Departments
- Mollie’s Miracle
- Magic City of the Plains
- Just How Good Were the Good Old Days?
- Western Events For July 2017
- Trapped!
- She’s So Money
- Mark Twain’s Vittles and Viands
- Who Established the First Commercial Brewery in the Early West?
- Was “Wild Bill” Hickok’s Failing Eyesight the Result of a Venereal Disease?
- Were Bounty Hunters as Despised as Most Westerns Depict?
- And the War Begins
- Texas Captains of Cotton and Cattle