Who is Touch the Clouds? Al Schaller Shasta Lake, California Touch The Clouds (real name Mahpia Icahtagya) was a chief of the Minneconjou Teton Sioux (Lakota). He was a cousin to Chief Crazy Horse and a brother to Chief Big Foot, who was photographed in that famous picture lying dead in the snow following the massacre at Wounded Knee. Touch The Clouds was born in present-day South Dakota in 1836. A great warrior and skilled military leader, he and Crazy Horse fought together during the Indian W

March 2009
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- The Man Behind the Cape
- Uncle Ernie’s Guide to Old Time Rodeo (Nonfiction)
- The Lost Boy: With Penny the Mustang Pony (Children’s Book)
- A Promise For Spring (Fiction)
- Zane Grey Western Legends (Fiction)
- Where Law Ends (Fiction)
- Last Buckaroo (Fiction)
- Love In an Envelope (Nonfiction)
- A Remarkable Curiosity (Nonfiction)
- Death of a Gunfighter (Nonfiction)
- More Zeal Than Discretion: The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane (Nonfiction)
- Hunting the American West (Nonfiction)
- Texas Devils: Rangers & Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861 (Nonfiction)
More In This Issue
- Was the Louis L’Amour short story, “The Gift of Cochise,” ever made into a movie?
- Who is Touch The Clouds?
- In Fort Apache, Col. Thursday is about to move the troops out when he warns Capt. York that he doesn?t want to see any “outside galloping.” What was he referring to?
- When did gambling become illegal out West?
- Who is H.F. Sills, the mystery witness in the O.K. Corral trial?
- What does the phrase, “Who-Hit-John” mean?
- I enjoyed your Sept. 2008 issue on saloons. Was the beer served cold?
- What is known about Jim Clements, the cousin of John Wesley Hardin?
- I Gotta Cook Where?
- What’s in a Name
- Phantom Rides Still Rollin’
- Finding Inspiration in the Clouds
- Ride Green
- Florence, Arizona
- The Firearms Legacy of Will Hoffeld
- Frank Weller
- Following Thomas “Broken Hand” Fitzpatrick
- Preservation: Canada Can-Do
- Potawatomi Trail of Death
- Collecting “Bois de Vache”
- Hope In a Bottle
- Rough Riders & Presidents
- 50th Anniversary of Rio Bravo