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Wild West - April 2012 - Table of Contents

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:54:26 +0000

The April 2012 issue of Wild West features stories about Lakota Sioux leader Red Cloud, California Ranger Harry Love and the grisly end of bandido Joaquin Murrieta, the 1874 locust plague on the Great Plains, the unusual early life of Bat Masterson's wife Emma, and shotgun messenger Clark Stocking.

Wild West Discussion - April 2012

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:30:19 +0000

Whom do you consider the most significant Lakota (Sioux) of the Old West: Sitting Bull, a warrior turned spiritual leader and Little Bighorn participant; Crazy Horse, another Little Bighorn participant and a relentless warrior in other battles; Red Cloud, a …

Book Review: Kit Carson, by David Remley

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:46:39 +0000

David Remley sifts the existing scholarship to provide a balanced profile of a Kit Carson that was neither hero nor villain but a complex and nuanced frontier figure.

Book Review: Wyatt Earp in San Diego, by Garner A. Palenske

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:25:26 +0000

Garner Palenske relates the little-known story of Wyatt and Josie Earp's post-Tombstone life in San Diego.

Book Review: Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek, by Louis Kraft

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:59:28 +0000

With this new biography Louis Kraft establishes himself as the authority on Indian wars figure Ned Wynkoop.

Book Review: Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, by R. Michael Wilson

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:43:24 +0000

R. Michael Wilson releases the third volume in his Legal Executions After Statehood series.

Book Review: Desperadoes of the Ozarks, by Larry Wood

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:26:39 +0000

Larry Wood relates 22 new tales of gunfights and other notorious incidents in his latest history of the Ozarks.

Book Review: The Settlers' War, by Gregory Michno

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:10:28 +0000

Gregory Michno takes a hard look at the bitter frontier conflict between Texas settlers and Indians in the 1860s.

TV Series Review: Hell on Wheels

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:50:58 +0000

Hell on Wheels aspires to the success of such successful series as Mad Men or Deadwood, but the jury remains out.

1874: The Year of the Locust

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:09:19 +0000

Like hail and rain they fell from the sky—120 billion hungry insects hell-bent on ravishing the Great Plains farmland. The locusts, farmers quipped, 'ate everything but the mortgage.'