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August 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about Colt cartridges, Ake news, Yogo sapphires and actor Robert Fuller
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Letter From Wild West — August 2019
In the August 2019 issue and his book, The Revenger, Aaron Robert Woodard delves into the mind of Wild Bill Hickok assassin Jack McCall
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Book Review: Wild Bill
Best-selling author Tom Clavin turns his authoritative gaze on Wild Bill Hickock, presenting familiar material in new and entertaining ways
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Book Review: All Because of a Mormon Cow
The editors present all available literature and let readers decide who was to blame for the 1854 Indian-army encounter that got 30 soldiers killed
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Book Review: The Mormon Handcart Migration
Candy Moulton traces the tragic path of five Mormon handcart companies that set out for Salt Lake City in 1856
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Book Review: Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight
Heidi Osselaer searches for the truth about a 1918 Arizona shootout—no, not in Tombstone—that left four men dead
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The Doc Who Rode With Custer
Assigned to the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1867, Army surgeon Isaac Coates had adventures with George Custer and helped the colonel at his court-martial
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Cecile W. Morgan’s Memories on Canvas
The Alabama artist draws on vintage photos to paint cowboy Bill Pickett and other Westerners
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American West Historian Will Bagley Wins Big With Owen Wister Award
The overland trails expert has earned Western Writers of America’s 2019 award for lifetime contributions to the genre
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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"
