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Crime Doesn’t Pay: A Group of Bandits Receive the Law’s Justice
Murdering bandits robbed a mule train in Arizona Territory and were caught. Town folk soon strung them up from the old sycamore
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June 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about Charlie Curtis, Arizona landmarks, Custer films and con man Soapy Smith
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Letter From Wild West — June 2019
In this sesquicentennial year of the first transcontinental railroad Americans can gaze back in appreciation
Civil War Figures
Book Review: The Other Custers
Bill Yenne explores the constellation of familial connections that centered on Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
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Book Review: Old West Showdown
Wild West contributors Bill Markley and Kellen Cutsforth square off to debate contentious tidbits of Western history
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Book Review: The Ranger Ideal
Darren Ivey tracks the Rangers' exploits and contributions while separating them from the Texas-sized myths
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Book Review: Blood Moon
John Sedgwick relates the drama and figures behind the intertribal clash dubbed the “Cherokee Holocaust"
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Book Review: Pioneers of Promotion
Joe Dobrow sheds light on the marketing geniuses behind such Western legends as Buffalo Bill Cody
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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
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Memory and the Rosebud
Northern Cheyenne and Lakota survivors of the Great Sioux War recalled the fight that preceded the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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Author Gregory Crouch
Crouch’s new book, The Bonanza King, digs deep into Nevada’s Comstock Lode and magnate John Mackay
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Joe De Yong
Would-be cowboy De Yong moved to Montana, worked in Charlie Russell’s Great Falls studio and left his own artistic legacy
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April 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about epic Western gunfights, General Nelson A. Miles, unknown Apaches and the Hubbell Trading Post
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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
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Book Review: The Revenger
Aaron Woodard builds on the work of the late Joseph Rosa to reveal the complicated gunfighter and his fate
Reviews
Book Review: Ben Thompson
Thomas Bicknell and Chuck Parsons tag team to profile one of the West's storied gunfighters
