June 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about Charlie Curtis, Arizona landmarks, Custer films and con man Soapy Smith
Letter From Wild West — June 2019
In this sesquicentennial year of the first transcontinental railroad Americans can gaze back in appreciation
Book Review: The Other Custers
Bill Yenne explores the constellation of familial connections that centered on Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
Book Review: Old West Showdown
Wild West contributors Bill Markley and Kellen Cutsforth square off to debate contentious tidbits of Western history
Book Review: The Ranger Ideal
Darren Ivey tracks the Rangers' exploits and contributions while separating them from the Texas-sized myths
Book Review: Blood Moon
John Sedgwick relates the drama and figures behind the intertribal clash dubbed the “Cherokee Holocaust"
Book Review: Pioneers of Promotion
Joe Dobrow sheds light on the marketing geniuses behind such Western legends as Buffalo Bill Cody
Book Review: War in East Texas
Texas state historian Bill O’Neal looks at the bloodiest of the Lone Star State's 19th-century blood feuds
April 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about epic Western gunfights, General Nelson A. Miles, unknown Apaches and the Hubbell Trading Post
Letter From Wild West – April 2019
The killing winter of 1886–87 on the Great Plains came to be known as the Big Die-up
Book Review: The Revenger
Aaron Woodard builds on the work of the late Joseph Rosa to reveal the complicated gunfighter and his fate
Book Review: Ben Thompson
Thomas Bicknell and Chuck Parsons tag team to profile one of the West's storied gunfighters
Book Review: Deadwood’s Al Swearingen
Jerry Bryant and Barbara Fifer confirm Deadwood's Al Swearingen was bad—but was he as bad as all that?
Book Review: They Called Him Buckskin Frank
Jack DeMattos and Chuck Parsons profile that "other" colorful Tombstone figure and notable Old West Arizonan
Game Review: Red Dead Redemption 2
This multiplatform prequel to the 2010 Spaghetti Western lives up to the violence and drama of its big-screen cousin
Movie Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coen brothers explore mythic absurdity and mortality on the Western frontier in this six-part anthology
