| Editor’s Letter
Weider Reader
Excerpts from recent articles in other
World History Group titles
Roundup
Author Paul Lee Johnson wins a Six-
Shooter Award from the Wild West History Association for his October 2013 Wild West article “The Will of McLaury,” author Gale Cooper wins her “Billy the Kid” lawsuit, and authors Will and John Gorenfeld offer a U.S. dragoon Top 10 list
Interview
By Johnny D. Boggs
Andrew R. Graybill discusses his book The Red and the White, the saga of a Montana family with connections to a little-remembered 1870 massacre
Westerners
The old Palo Verde, Calif., general
store had much to offer, including
Cherry Cheer
Indian Life
By Will and John Gorenfeld
When Winnebago warriors broke from their Iowa reservation in the 1840s, an empathetic Captain Edwin Vose Sumner was given the “serious duty” of removing them in winter
Pioneers and Settlers
By John Koster
Referred to only as “Bell,” the black man who guided Frederick Law Olmsted to Yosemite in 1864, could have been, the author argues, poet James Madison Bell
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Gunfighters and Lawmen
By Adam James Jones
Felipe Nerio Espinosa, one of America’s earliest recorded serial killers, went on an 1863 Colorado Territory killing spree, first with his brother and then a nephew
Western Enterprise
By J.R. Sanders
In its cow-town days rough-and-tumble Dodge City had a roller-skating rink—as did Tombstone, Helena, El Paso and Cheyenne
Ghost Towns
By Jim Pettengill
Colorado’s biggest gold producer in the early 1880s, Summitville is now high and dry with about 30 weathered structures
Collections
By Linda Wommack
New Mexico’s Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, while not as celebrated as Chaco Canyon, is another ancestral Puebloan site well worth a visit
Guns of the West
By Lee A. Silva
Among the weapons Doc Holliday carried are an 1851 Navy Colt, a Colt double-action Lightning/Thunderer, a double-barreled shotgun and the “Hell Bitch”
Reviews
Shirley Ayn Linder considers books and movies that deal in some fashion with Earp/Holliday women. Plus reviews of recent books, including Linder’s Doc Holliday in Film and Literature and the recent film A Million Ways to Die in the West
Go West!
Nebraska’s Chimney Rock pointed the way west
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