
February 2021 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about Billy the Kid's colorized tintype, Custer subordinate Frederick Benteen, transcontinental railroads, the Dakotas and horses
Readers share dispatches about Billy the Kid's colorized tintype, Custer subordinate Frederick Benteen, transcontinental railroads, the Dakotas and horses
Colorado's Ridgway Western Heritage Society offers John Wayne fans a wide-format, photo-laden 50th anniversary look at the filming of True Grit
Wayne Brazel confessed to having killed Pat Garrett, the onetime New Mexico sheriff forever known as the man who shot Billy the Kid
Richard Etulian assesses the vast array of written material and movies about Billy the Kid
Richard Etulain considers the life of and legends surrounding infamous Western outlaw Billy the Kid
Diana Kouris presents a sympathetic but honest portrayal of famed Colorado cattlewoman 'Queen Ann' Bassett
Gregory Michno pulls no punches in his assessment of traditional frontier heroes like Crockett and Boone
Megan Kate Nelson looks at Confederate Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley's invasion of New Mexico and concurrent Indian campaigns
Readers share dispatches about wickedest Wild West towns, deadly gunfights, lawman Fred Dodge and Bat Masterson
Writer-director Alex Cox examines the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight using Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's storytelling techniques
Jerome Greene looks at the Northern Cheyennes' desperate and ultimately tragic 1878–79 flight for freedom
Though not all Hispanos were fans, some spoke of the Kid as a brave and loyal friend
Louis Kraft takes another look at the 1864 Sand Creek massacre, the beginning of the end for the Cherokee and Arapaho way of life
Jerry Thompson profiles outlaw Joe Lynch Davis, a catalyst of Oklahoma's bloody Porum Range War — and the author's grandfather
Art T. Burton reveals Cherokee Bill, one of the deadliest badmen of wild and woolly Indian Territory
Roland De Wolk tackles the life, times and scandals of transcontinental railroad mover Leland Stanford