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Wild West Magazine
Devon Mihesuah delivers the most thorough biography to date of Cherokee fugitive Ned Christie...
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Wild West Magazine
Wild West contributor Erik Wright profiles little-known Western mining camp lawman Phil Foote...
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Wild West Magazine
Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials by Bill Neal, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, $27.95. The Texas criminal justice system is well known today for being tough on perpetrators of...
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Wild West Magazine
Deputy marshal survived terrible wounds. Near Purcell, Indian Territory, on August 23, 1895, the outlaw “Black Jack” Bill Christian shot Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Hocker just above the heart. The rifle ball passed through the upper part...
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Wild West Magazine
Jesse James: The Best Writings on the Notorious Outlaw and His Gang edited by Harold Dellinger, The Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Conn., 2007, $16.95. One admirer called him “this wonderful outlaw,” but others labeled him...
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Wild West Magazine
The Billy the Kid Reader edited by Frederick Nolan, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2007, $29.95. “No famous figure of the American West has more successfully and more tantalizingly resisted definitive understanding than Billy the...
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Wild West Magazine
Wyatt Earp spent his last years trying to set the record straight on the story of his life. His biographer Stuart Lake had something more in mind: He was going to create the Icon of the American West. But the legend might never have been...
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Wild West Magazine
He worked on the Fountain murder case. Historian C.L. Sonnichsen introduced Pinkerton operative J.C. Fraser to his readers during his coverage of the disappearance of Colonel Albert J. Fountain in Tularosa: Last of the Frontier West, first...
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Wild West Magazine
The murder case lives on in Corey Recko’s book. Attorney Albert J. Fountain and his 8-year-old son, Henry, disappeared somewhere in the White Sands of southeastern New Mexico Territory in February 1896. Ambush and murder were suspected,...
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Wild West Magazine
The Real West: Cowboys and Outlaws Greystone Communications, Inc., and A&E Television Networks, 2007 DVD format (produced 1993-94), eight 45-minute episodes, $17.95. The Real West aired on A&E from 1992 to 1994, and its success...
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Wild West Magazine
Before Iowa was Iowa, it was a land without law enforcement or courts, but when cold-blooded murder was committed there in 1834, the settlers in Dubuque improvised quite well. Frontier justice in a lawless land just west of the Mississippi...
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Wild West Magazine
After two woodcutters decided to rob a train. Tulare County had a couple of good but relatively inexperienced deputy sheriffs in Earl Daggett and Victor Reed. On the night of March 19, 1896, the two lawmen, based in Visalia, California,...
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Wild West Magazine
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford DVD released February 2008, Warner Home Video, 160 minutes, $27.98. In some parts of the country, trying to find a theater showing this 2007 movie, based on the novel by Ron...
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Wild West Magazine
100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen, 1839-1939 by Dan Anderson and Laurence Yadon, Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, La., 2007, $16.95 paperback. On the occasion of Oklahoma’s 100th anniversary of statehood, it seems to have been...
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Wild West Magazine
The Texas Rangers: Vol. 1, Wearing the Cinco Peso 1821-1900 by Mike Cox, Forge (Tom Doherty Associates), New York, 2008, $25.95. For many years, Walter Prescott Webb’s 1935 The Texas Rangers needed updating, but that is certainly no...
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Wild West Magazine
Eva Evans had just buried her thieving fiancé, and her one-armed father was in jail waiting trial, when she performed in a blood-and-thunder melodrama about the two outlaws. On July 29, 1893, the San Francisco Examiner previewed a planned...
