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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
Civil War Battles
Fighting on Multiple Fronts
Should campaigns against Native Americans and Confederates be viewed as one war or two?
Civil War Battles
Pure Chaos: Braxton Bragg’s subordinates sabotaged victory at Chickamauga
Tellingly, after the Confederates’ hard-won victory at Chickamauga, Braxton Bragg’s major subordinates petitioned Davis to relieve him of his command.
