July is the busiest month for Yellowstone National Park, where vacationers find a cool respite from the sizzling heat. The idea of setting aside land for the public’s benefit was revolutionary when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill creating the

True West May 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- How did Settlers and Cowboys Calculate Miles?
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- Cowan’s Auction
- How Accurate was the Language in the 2010 Version of True Grit?
- Shaken, Stirred and Strong
- What History Has Taught Me: Howard Terpning
- Did Ballistics Forensics Ever Come into Play in Solving Crimes in the Old West?
- Was Doc Holliday Really a Deadly Dentist?
- The Diné Return to the Four Corners
- Seminole Scouts
- Battle of Rosebud
- Did Frontier Soldiers go through Boot Camp?
- The Militancy of the Miners