Wild West

Wild West Magazine presents the great American frontier from its beginnings to today. America’s western frontier has been a vital part of the country’s myths and reality, from the earliest exploration beyond the territory of the first colonies, to the wide expanses of the western prairies and deserts. Experience the old west and cowboys and Indians from top historical writers. Wild West brings to life the fascinating history, lore and culture of the great American frontier.

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WE DON’T NEED NO BADGES • THE LATEST HISTORY FROM AUTHOR MELODY GROVES PROFILES OLD WEST LAWMEN TURNED LAWBREAKERS

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LANDLESS ROCKY BOY

HOOKY JACK & RAGS • THE NIGHT WATCHMAN IN RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA, PATROLLED WITH TWO HOOKS, FOUR PAWS AND NO GUNS

A CABIN OF HER OWN • IN 1889 A DETERMINED YOUNG WIFE AND MOTHER IN STAR VALLEY, WYOMING, BUILT A CABIN THAT HAS SURVIVED THE TEST OF TIME

THE SALAZAR LEGACY IN COLORADO • SINCE ARRIVING IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY IN THE 19th CENTURY THE FAMILY HAS FARMED, RANCHED AND SERVED IN PUBLIC OFFICE

FROM MOOSE JAW TO THE MASTERS • INSPIRED BY HIS FATHER, CANADIAN HARLEY BROWN HAS PAINTED EVERYTHING FROM AMERICAN INDIANS TO HOLLYWOOD CELEBS

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A WANDERING SPIRIT • THOUGH A FRIEND TO HUDSON’S BAY EMPLOYEES, THE CREE WAR CHIEF MADE AN ENEMY OF THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT

STYLE • We go glamping within sight of magnificent Mount Rushmore National Memorial, try our hand at fly-fishing, appreciate the inspired works of impressionist painter Jerry Jordan and more

GERONIMO’S FINAL SURRENDER • Learning from a retracted surrender earlier in 1886, Brigadier General Nelson Miles wasn’t taking any chances that September in Arizona Territory’s Skeleton Canyon

THE PARTING • In 1913 the freed Apache prisoners of ‘Geronimo’s band’ had to choose whether to remain in Oklahoma or move to a reservation in New Mexico

FOR THE SINS OF GERONIMO?

THE RELOCATION DILEMMA

THE HERO OF LITTLE COON CREEK • For coming to the aid of fellow soldiers under Cheyenne attack on Sept. 2, 1868, Corporal Leander Herron received the Medal of Honor

THE END OF HIS ROPE • Charlie Reed reached it soon after teaming up with Doc Middleton and his gang of organized horse thieves in Nebraska

FATE OF THE SHOTGUN BRIGADE

‘THIS WHOLESALE SYSTEM OF ROBBERY’ • Amid the turmoil of the Civil War unscrupulous white men, not Indians, were the most troublesome livestock thieves on the central Plains

AN UNWITTING AGENT OF WAR • Thomas Trueman Quinn tried to accommodate the Plains Crees in Canada, but he couldn’t keep them from joining a doomed rebellion in 1885

A TOWN WITHIN FAMED CODY • WYOMING’S OLD TRAIL TOWN PRESERVES OLD WEST BUILDINGS AND MEMORIALIZES NOTABLE WESTERNERS

TRAPDOOR EVOLUTION • SPRINGFIELD CARBINES AND RIFLES LIVED ON IN IMPROVED VERSIONS AFTER LT. COL. GEORGE A. CUSTER’S DEFEAT AT THE LITTLE BIGHORN

INDEPENDENCE, COLORADO • IT HAD A SHORT RUN AS A GOLD CAMP BEFORE NEARBY SILVER CAMPS TOOK OVER

MUST SEE, MUST READ • BILL CAVALIERE RECOMMENDS APACHE-RELATED BOOKS AND FILMS

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MORMON PIONEER NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL, NEBRASKA