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Editor's Letter
Letters
Roundup
Author Edwin R. Sweeney's Top 10 Chiricahua Apaches of the 19th century, Buffalo Bill in Scotland, Billy the Kid in Jeopardy, a Lakota burial, Russell Means' death, a film called Hardin and The Rifleman's Johnny Crawford
Interview
By Johnny D. Boggs
Paul Magid's fascination with General George Crook has won him a 2012 Western Writers of America Spur Award for best Western nonfiction biography. And he's hard at work on Vol. II
Westerners
Beginning in 1881 tourists at Yosemite could ride a stagecoach through a tunneled-out sequoia
Gunfighters and Lawmen
By Les Kruger
The Butler ranching family had trouble with flying lead when they went to town, namely Helena, Texas—but the fight of their life came in nearby Daileyville
Pioneers and Settlers
By Carole Nielson
Settlers in Oregon's Rogue Valley threatened to tar and feather or even lynch John Beeson for his outspoken advocacy of Indian rights
Indian Life
By John Koster
His boyhood name was Plenty Kill, but when a student at the Indian school in Carlisle, Pa., he went by the less-menacing name Standing Bear
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Art of the West
By Johnny D. Boggs
Raised on a ranch in eastern New Mexico, sculptor Curtis Fort is best known for his cowboy scenes, but Return of the Hunters focuses on Plains Indians
Western Enterprise
By Kim Mariette
Funerals in the frontier West were usually simple affairs, but with the arrival of the hearse, the business of death made for a pretty decent living
Ghost Towns
By Les Kruger
Travelers between San Antonio and Goliad once found plenty of supplies and sometimes a little trouble in Helena, Texas
Collections
By Linda Wommack
In the shadow of St. Louis' Gateway Arch, the Museum of Westward Expansion opens a door on the early Western experience
Guns of the West
By Lee A. Silva
On April 3, 1855, Rollin White secured a U.S. patent for the newfangled cartridge revolver, and the firearms industry was soon up in arms
Reviews
Author Edwin R. Sweeney assesses Geronimo books and movies through the years, plus reviews of recent books, including preeminent historian Robert Utley's biography Geronimo
Go West!
Utah's heaven-sent Little Cottonwood Canyon
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