February 2021 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about Billy the Kid's colorized tintype, Custer subordinate Frederick Benteen, transcontinental railroads, the Dakotas and horses
Book Review: True Grit
Colorado's Ridgway Western Heritage Society offers John Wayne fans a wide-format, photo-laden 50th anniversary look at the filming of True Grit
Skeletons in Buckskin at the Alamo
The murky fate of the Texian dead grows murkier after human remains turn up inside the famed San Antonio mission chapel
Letter From Wild West — February 2021
Wayne Brazel confessed to having killed Pat Garrett, the onetime New Mexico sheriff forever known as the man who shot Billy the Kid
Book Review: Billy the Kid, A Reader’s Guide
Richard Etulian assesses the vast array of written material and movies about Billy the Kid
Book Review: Thunder in the West
Richard Etulain considers the life of and legends surrounding infamous Western outlaw Billy the Kid
Book Review: Nighthawk Rising
Diana Kouris presents a sympathetic but honest portrayal of famed Colorado cattlewoman 'Queen Ann' Bassett
Book Review: The Frontiersmen Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Gregory Michno pulls no punches in his assessment of traditional frontier heroes like Crockett and Boone
Book Review: The Three-Cornered War
Megan Kate Nelson looks at Confederate Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley's invasion of New Mexico and concurrent Indian campaigns
Diana Kouris: She Knows Brown’s Park
The author grew up in the Colorado mountain valley and has written a biography of local rancher 'Queen Ann' Bassett
The Mural Art of Fred Haberlein
'Lightning Heart' produced 140 murals, some historical and some religious, over his six-decade career
Roland De Wolk: About an American Disruptor
Roland De Wolk tackles the life, times and scandals of Leland Stanford, one of the Central Pacific Railroad’s ‘Big Four’
How a Reverend’s Hard Pioneer Life Inspired His Dark Christmastime Tales
Itinerant reverend and Western author Cyrus Townsend Brady related Christmas tales not necessarily for children.
December 2020 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about wickedest Wild West towns, deadly gunfights, lawman Fred Dodge and Bat Masterson
On-Screen Review: Tombstone Rashomon
Writer-director Alex Cox examines the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight using Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's storytelling techniques
Book Review: January Moon
Jerome Greene looks at the Northern Cheyennes' desperate and ultimately tragic 1878–79 flight for freedom
