Writing about Western history as a not-by-a-damn-sight Robert Utley, traveling across the West as a not-by-a-damn-sight Candy Moulton, absorbing Western cinema as a not-by-a-damn-sight Roger Ebert, I have heard many classic comments. So in the spirit of the season—Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday—I pay tribute to the spoken word in my first (and likely last) True West Go

November/December 2008
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Oklahoma Rough Rider (Nonfiction)
- Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory (Nonfiction)
- The American Far West in the 20th Century (Nonfiction)
- The Long Knives are Crying (Fiction)
- Adelsverein: The Gathering (Fiction)
- Ride the Desperate Trail (Fiction)
- From a Distance (Fiction)
- Sagebrush and Paintbrush (Children’s Book)
- A Priest, a Prostitute & Some Other Early Texans (Nonfiction)
- Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Nonfiction)
- Kemo Sabe Unmasked
- Outlaw Trail Collection
- Stranger on Horseback
- Radio Westerns
- Creepy Bastards
- Sturges Biography
- A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
- Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
More In This Issue
- San Diego, California
- Worst Turkeys of the West
- Dashing Through the Snow
- A Good Enough Mine
- Retreat at the Homestead Ranch
- Paul Andrew Hutton
- History, Not For Sale
- Preservation: Hold the Fort
- That Cowboy Stench
- Centennial Winchester Sells High
- Following the Wild Bunch
- Sheriff’s Sale
- Gloomy Blumy’s Beautiful World