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July, 1972	Issue: Volime IX, No. 4 Science and Art in the Southwest. 20th Century technology explodes in the land of enchangment. The development of the arts, architecture and science in the Indian and Spanish American cultures, as well as our own modern day contribution The Buffalo in American folklore. Tall tales of the erstwile ubiquitous bison, many of which are still considered fact in parts of the west Discovery in the Grassland: a sensitive full color pictorial is combined with word pictures descrbing the fascinating communities of living things that thrive in the meadows and grasslands, often overlooked by man The invisible cities: new treasures from man's ancient past. In what has become the largest and most extensive archaeological expedition in the Western hemisphere, scientists on the barren North slope of Alaska have unearthed possiblly the first solid evidence of man's early migration from Asia Will progress destroy our ancient treasures? Why Wallace Stegner won the Pulitzer prize	More information about this magazine
March, 1970	Issue: Volume VII, No. 2 The case of the very American militants A kid on the Comstock The rebellious horse conquered San Fransisco and the Vigilante Style: II The Amorous Senator The Pug Nosed Lil and the Girl with the Blue Velvet Band God Bless our Happy Ship	More information about this magazine
February, 1967	Issue: Volume IV, No. 1 What the Railroad will bring us Epic on Glass The revoloidal spindle and the wondrous avitor Bernalillo County Guns of the Canadian West Medicine Show Hayden in the Badlands Ballads of the little big horn This is a National Park The case of the hard nosed conservationists Disenos	More information about this magazine
August, 1967	Issue: Volume IV, No. 3 The wondrous town: this instant Hoof and horn on the Chisholm trail The rise and fall of Alec Swan Gold Rush Daguerrotypes In San Francisco and the Mines, 1851/1856 The hard luck story of the Snively expedition Markers cut by hand	More information about this magazine
Fall, 1966	Issue: Volume III, No. 4 Rushing for land. Oklahoma: 1889 A 200 foot tower is scarcely adequate Woody Guthrie: the man, the land, the Understanding The Lady from Boston and the Omaha Indians Tape Worms and Shoulder Strikers Shipwrecked! The legacy of the American wild west in medieval scholarship The Dude from Limerick A Candle for the Sun Western Books	More information about this magazine
May, 1975	Issue: Volume XII, No. 3 Butch Cassidy comes home. The never before revealed story of a prodigal's return The temperature mutiny. An 1865 revolt aboard the Clipper ship White Swallow and the precedent setting San Francisco trial that followed Kinsey, photographer. Trees and loggers of the turn of the Century Pacific northwest. As pictured by a master documentarian From Old World to new with Robert Louis Stevenson. The famous Scottish author reports on life in steerage and emigrant train during an 1879 trip to far west The Emigrant's progress. Being a portfolio of 19th Century skethes shoiwng the discomforts and joys of journeying to a new life in America Robert Louis Stevenson and the Old Goat Ranch Welsh Indians and other Anglo Fables. The first of a series of articles on the Forces and Nations that shaped the American West of 1776	More information about this magazine
September, 1976	Issue: Volume XIII, No. 5 Colorado: a color portfolio Castle in the Desert: A historical tour and reconstructed Bent's Fort Fremont at Bent's Fort: Five Days in the History of a Frontier Landmark The Fifty Niners: Colorado's firts great gold rush Relics of a Wilderness Interlude: abandoned Gold Towns in Colorado's Eastern San Juan Martha Maxwell's Peaceable Kingdom. The story of a Colorado Huntress Home on the Road, by T.H. Watkins: a pictorial review of the Early Recreation al Vehicles	More information about this magazine
July, 1976	Issue:Volume XIII, No. 4 The American West in 1776: some notes on what was happening across the Father of Waters The living past: on the trail of juan Bautista de Anza Dominguez and Escalante; the 1776 search for a route from Santa Fe to Monterey July Fourth, 1789 The West in 1876: Frontier as viewed by Eastern Press Supplement to Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper	More information about this magazine
September, 1975	Issue: Volume XII, No. 5 A state of less than Enchantment: New Mexico in 1776 Seeking the Origins of a Western Song Classic Portrait for a Western Album: Shorty Harris: the Bantam of Ballarat Monument to Elegance: Leland Stanford's $2,000,000 San Francisco Mansion The Poetry of history: reflections on the subtle art of writing history World of the Mountain Man: the unrestrained but precarious life of the free trapper Images of an Era: the mountain man. A western archetype as portrayed by nine notable artists The Big Sky Development: a lesson for the future	More information about this magazine
May, 1974	Issue: Volume XI, No. 3 king of all the mountains. Scaling the Heights of Mighty Rainier Six minutes that changed history. Brief but decisive, the 1759 battle of Quebec sealed the fate of half a continent Collector's choice: the old ship saloon Women and culture in Russian America. Noblewomen and natives alike contributed to the survival of Alaska's first permanent white settlements Chicago to Los Angeles in a tourist sleeper Men who challenged the bighorn. Now tamed by yellowtail dam, the bighorn canyon once attracted some of America's boldest adventurers A matter of opinion: renaissance on the reservation: two reader's views	More information about this magazine
July, 1974	Issue: Volume XI, No. 4 The flappers were her daughters. The liberated, literary world of gertrude Richey From glass to wood: early western photojournalism Frank Tenney Johnsn: Master of the Old West: a great artist in the tradition of Remington and Russell Mission San Juan Capistrano. Visiting the loveliest of the Franciscan Ruins By covered wagon to the promised land; traveling overland in the Oregon and California trails. Love in tragedy in Old Monterey: a bittersweet tale of romance in glod rush California	More information about this magazine
September, 1974	Issue: Volume XI, No. 5 When smoke blotted out the sun: the most destructive forest fire in American history. Idaho, 1910 Stirrups or Pedals? Rolling into action with the Colonel of the First Cycle Infantry The California Trail: a personal Quest: retracing the stpes of the Pioneers, with a color portfolio of the California Trial Today The Man who told time by the tree: the story of Dr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, father of the science of dendrochronology Under Steam for the Gold Rush: the diary of an eventful voyage to Nome, Alaska in 1901 Midcontinent in transition: 15,000 years of geological history on the great lakes A matter of opinion: the fragile desert	More information about this magazine
May, 1980	Issue: Volume XVII, No. 5 Captain John Augustus Sutter. Visionary of the Western Frontier, victim of the Gold Rush The Presence of the Past: Sutter's fort, reconstruction of a feudal community Portrait for a Western album. james Marshall: unlucky father of the California Gold rush Stuter's sawmill: historic site of the gold discovery Grand Forks, Yukon Territory. Portrait of a Canadian Gold rush town A slumbering princess awakens The new Winchester Museum. Treasures of history, technology and art	More information about this magazine
Winter, 1966	Issue: Volume 3, No. 1 Requiem for the federation Nebraska's Homemade windmills Stagecoach Renaissance Imperial Valley Indian Portrats: Fort Sill, 1867 Cowhands, Cow horses and cows The fight for Sitting Bull's bones	More information about this magazine
November, 1969	Issue: Volume VI, No. 6 The hunter and the artist Collector's Choice. 'Old Gabe' of her majesty'English life guards Arizona Vanquished Portraits of a Western Album: VII To Wash this land in blood, Part II Christmas and the comet A new museum for the west Free man in a free country	More information about this magazine
May, 1970	Issue: Volume VII, No. 3 Taken by the wind The West of Out Our Way The Wyatt Earp Syndrome Out West with Rowdy Brakeman Migrant Mother: 1936	More information about this magazine
September, 1970	Issue: Volume VII, No. 5 Steamboat to the Rockies. 19th Century adventures on the Upper Missouri An Emigrant's guide for women Song of man: a prologue to history Summer White House: an Impossible dream In pursuite of duty: a case of trial and error Comstock County: land of promises Spurs and saddlebags. Folk poetry of the frontier >	More information about this magazine
January, 1971	Issue: Volume VIII, No. 1 Midas of New Mexico. The Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell story The west's gunmen: I. The historiography of the frontier heroes The Legendary Concords Water, man and nature. Portrait of the web of life: a color pictorial Lion at Bay: the curtain comes down on a Western Institution Incident at tragedy springs: the unsolved mystery of the California Trail A Home for the sppirit: history of the Wilderness Preservation movement	More information about this magazine
May, 1972	Issue: Volume IX, No. 3 Four surveyors challenge the Rocky Mountan west; fighting bureaucracy and Indians in a wild land The Gold rush Actor: his fortunes and misfortunes in the mining camps Bisbee's response to civil disorder A gallery of horses with sketches and captions by Frederic Remington The short, happy history of the state of jefferson. provincial Chauvinism in the Northwest, 1941 The greatest show in Mexico; a wild west spectacular in the bullring	More information about this magazine
March, 1969	Issue: Volume VI, No. 2 Chales, thou art a rare blade Ignatius Donnelly and the politics of disconten A happening at Oglala Sockey, Cling and the Golden State Twilight of the Californios Portraits of a Western album: VII	More information about this magazine
November, 1968	Issue: Volume V, No. 6 Off to the Plains! Poverty, affluence and culture Collector's choice 'we cross the prairie , as of old the Pilgrims crossed the sea....' country Western: the music of America Eastward Ho!	More information about this magazine
July, 1975	Issue: Volume XIIl, No. 4 The second in a series of artcles on the forces and nations that shaped the American west of 1776 Indians called her 'the measuring woman' Alice Fletcher and the apportionment of reservation lands The unique photography of Art Gore Edward Rosewater's fourth of July. Puttng a zing into Independence Day one hundred years ago Frontier in transition: California's redwood coast as photographed by AW Ericson 'Rendezvous Country' The wild heart of the Rockies	More information about this magazine
May, 1968	Issue: Volume V, No. 3 Montage of the Republic: a gallery of men and events: 1806/1848 The Lone Star Mystique Flag of Illusion Myths and realities of the alamo Let us attack the enemy and give them hell! The Texas Navy Life in the land of beginning again The Mexican War: climx of manifest destiny	More information about this magazine
July, 1969	Issue: Volume VI, No. 4 Conquest of the Colorado The Battle of Omaha Jornada del Muerto Nome To wash this land in blood, Part I The Ghost Dance	More information about this magazine
March, 1968	Issue: Volume V, No. 2 Plains Indian Painting Some Distant Vision Water, land and people in the great valley The gunfighter and society Portaits for a Western Album: III Tyrone: the creation of a model ghost town Arrivederci, Venice	More information about this magazine
May, 1967	Issue: Volume IV, no. 2 Brief Sanctuary Shakespeare in the logging camp The Grand Canyon and the Colorado The Eye of the Beholder The Canyon Dwellers Image makers of the Colorado Canyons The use and misuse of a river The Mythic west of WHD Koerner History, myth and Western Writer	More information about this magazine
November, 1967	Issue: Volume IV, No. 4 Western Limits of the Buffalo Range Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco Legend of Destiny Soiled Doves and Ornamental Culture Out West in a Palace Car Religion and Superstition Stampede towns of te Upper yukon The Bear of the North Portraits for a Western Album: a busted cowboy's Christmas	More information about this magazine
Fall, 1965	Issue: Volume II, No. 4 On the writing of history The first cable car A conversation with Joe Pfeiffer Since Lewis and Clark A cowboy writes to Owen Wister A cowman's philosophy Lumber ships at Puget's sound The Penny Auction rebellion Jumping frog of Calveras county Moutain men: a review and a tribute	More information about this magazine
Winter, 1964	Issue: Volume I, No. 1 Fremont's Arizona Adventure From Sagebrush to hay and back again Frederick Jackson Turner Herbert Eugene Bolton Walter Prescott Webb Western Folklore and history Gateway to the west Shreds from henry Wagner's Mantle	More information about this magazine
Summer, 1964	Issue: Volume I, No. 3 Frontier Lawman Sylvester Mowry The Master Mariner's regatta Winnetou of Der Wild West Why they went west The 'Lord' of the Powder River	More information about this magazine
Fall, 1964	Issue:Volume I, No. 4 Frenchman, Englishmen and the Indian Standing up Country negro Cowboys Jim Wardner: financial wizard of the West Spotted Tail: warrior, Diplomat Custer in Fiction Christmas on the Plains Moods, memories and mirages The West through salt spray	More information about this magazine
May, 1979	Issue: Volume XVI, No. 3 Native Americans: a special issue Wounded Knee and other Dark Images The Havasupai of the Grand Canyon The Presence of the Past The Plains Indian Museum and its treasures Shall the Islands be preserved? Portrait for a Western Album	More information about this magazine
November, 1979	Issue: Volume XVI, No. 6 jeffersonian Indian Diplomacy The Ranch Handyman: a vanishing American Historic Adobes of Monterey, California Maria Ignacia Bonifacio: the Legend of the Sherman Rose Commodore Jones and his private war with Mexico. The US invasion of Moterey in 1842 19th Century Monterey: California's first Artists' colony	More information about this magazine
July, 1977	Issue: Volume XIV, No. 4 Campaigning with Custer: Diaries and letters of a young army couple on the Indian Frontier William Henry Jackson in Mexico. A great Western photographer on assignment with the Mexican Central Railroad The Dust Bowl: Drought, Erosion and Despair in the Southern Great Plains Rainmakers. Early Dy weather salesmen in the American West First photographers of the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon: a portfolio of color photographs	More information about this magazine
November, 1976	Issue:Volume XIII, No. 6 Wilderness diaries: a missionarycouple in the Pacific Northwest, 1839/1848 The Centennial Homestake: a descent into the West's largest cold mine Historian with a paintbrush: John Clymer, Artist of the frontier West The Brief, hectic life of jackson Hole National Monument. The battle to Bring Jackson Hole into the National Park System Industrial Archeology: a new look at our industrial heritage John Colter's lonely explorations of the West	More information about this magazine
March, 1978	Issue: Volume XV, No. 2 Pagan interlude: memories of an 1889 Hunting trip with the Sioux The Traveling sales agent in the American West The Irish in early California A swiss artist on the Western Frontier, Fran Buchser, 1866 The ranching heritage center: an outdoor museum that recreates the ranching past The Indian Photographs of Roland Reed	More information about this magazine
January, 1978	Issue: Volume XV, No. 1 The return of Malaspina: Spain's Great Scientific Expedition to the Pacific. 1789/1794 George Catlin's Indian Gallery. A 19th C artist's remarkable Native American Portraits An Interview with Wallace Stegner. A distinguished Western Writer talks about his work Louis J. Stellman's chinatown: photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown in transition	More information about this magazine
January, 1977	Issue: Volume XIV, Nin pursuit of nicknames in the Old West Winter at Fort Clark: Maximilian and Bodmer: among the plains Indians, 1833/1834 Red Death on the Missouri: tragic smallpox epidemic of 1837	More information about this magazine
July, 1968	Issue: Volume V, No. 4 Travelers by 'Overland' No Trade for heroes Two thousand miles from the counting house Portraits of a Western album: Princess Angeline An Old Time Fourth of July; on the Gold Rush Trail, At Shoalwater Bay, At Santa Cruz, At Bodie, At San Diego, At deadwood, A scream from the American Eagle in Dakota	More information about this magazine
September, 1968	Issue: Volume V, No. 5 Daniel H. Burnham: Tycoon of Western Architecture I catch the Bank robber Joseph Smith and the Political Kingdom of God On the Flood Tide to Fortune Portraits for a Western Album: letter from a frontier fort A painter in mendocino The Jolly Flatboatmen	More information about this magazine
January, 1979	Issue: Volume XVI, No. 1 Captain James cook: a British Mariner in the Pacific Frontier Oral history from Pioneer Texas The Grays Harbor, Washington, Photographs of Charles Pratsch Black Elk: Lakota Holy Man A victorian family in Alaska: the John G. Brady family of Sitka The Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas	More information about this magazine
July, 1979	Issue: Volume XVI, No. 4 John Muir in Sierra, 1871 Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful Inn Howard Eaton and the Birth of Western Dude Ranching A photographic portfolio of a 1917 pack trip An episode from the life of a Montana dude rancher John Mohler Studebaker: Wheelbarrow Johnny Gustaf Nordenskiold and the treasure of the Mesa Verde	More information about this magazine
May, 1978	Issue: Volume XV, No. 3 Eusebio Francisco Kino: a Jesuit explorer in the American Southwest Digo romero, the plains Appaches and the Mexican Inquisition The Grand Canyon, and tow of its most eminent biographers The scientist as artist: Clarence E. Dutton Limner of Grandeur: William H. Holmes Ina Coolbrith: poet of songs unsung W.R. Leigh: an artist on the Western Frontier	More information about this magazine
Winter, 1965	Issue: Volume II, No. 1 Kit Carson and the Adobe Walls Campaign The Bomb at the governor's gate Fire on the comstock Adios to a free man The devil's hatband The 'lasting Peace' of Fort Laramie A museum in search of the West The unwritten West	More information about this magazine
Spring, 1965	Issue: Volume II, No. 2 James Bowie American Indians and American History The Last of the Buffalo Indians Mari Sandoz: Nebraska Loner J. Ross Browne and the corruptible West A Western Diary The Americanization of Sitka Prospectors, profits and prejudice Rush to the Yukon	More information about this magazine
May, 1977	Issue: Volume XIV, No. 3 The Epic contest to complete the transcontinental railroad The Buffalo Bill Historical Center Eden Ravished: pioneer attitudes toward Conservation and the land 19th and 20th Century Pacific Coast maritime photography The Sea Shanty in Western Waters	More information about this magazine
November, 1977	Issue: Volume XIV, No. 6 New Mexico Incident: an episode in the life of Western Writer Eugene Manlove Rhodes Some obeservations on our dual citizenship in the Wests of Myth and reality Remington and Russell: two artists who fashioned America's image of the western Frontier Scorched Cowboys: an Old Colorado Cowhand's tale of his first roundup Dan Coolidge: an introduction to the work of a now obscure western writer Riding the Cherrycow chuck line: Cowboy life in photographs	More information about this magazine
September, 1972	Issue: Voume IX, No. 5 The Hudson's Bay Company and the American Indian An American West treasure hunt in Connecticut: The Frederick W. Beinecke Collection, yale University Dramatic Landscapes in the Great Southwest Early Spanish and American Exploration in the Rockies Charles Edwin Fripp, Special Artist: 1898 Victims of Justice: tragedy at Carson City Conservation on the American Frontier	More information about this magazine
March, 1972	Issue: Volume IX, No. 2 The building of Fort Churchill: blueprint for a Military Fiasco Lassen Peak: the fire mountains of the Pacific Coast The Barbary Coast Frederic Reminton's Reactions to the Cuban Crisis Can we save our Wild Places? national parts in Jeopardy Letter from Wise, County, Texas. Being a description of the Lone Star State a Century ago	More information about this magazine
January, 1973	Issue: Volume X, No. 1 A US ambassador's involvement in the Intrigue of mexico's 'ten tragic days' A renowned naturalist recalls his life among the Eskimos a half century ago Mark Twian: Senatorial Secretary The Enduring Sandhills: a visit to the Grasslands of Western Nebraska, one of the last great American Prairies Missionarie's toll for souls and survival: introducing Christianity to the Pacific Northwest The story of an island, an Indian Tribe, and the Idle Speculation of a Comstock millionaire Rawhide pays its respects	More information about this magazine
March, 1975	Issue: Volume XII, No. 2 Essay from an old cabin: an appreciation of relics, nature and simplicity The Great era of the Indian Medicine Show A new portrait of the American landscape Abigail Duniway, Western Pioneer in the struggle for equal suffrage Echo from a lonely grave The Sod House Photographs of Solomon D. Butcher Army Tours, Victory Gardens, and a luxury hotel full of uniforms	More information about this magazine
January, 1970	Issue: Volume VII, No. 1 Introduction: law, order and survival San Francisco and the Vigilante Style: I Collector's choice: a first for law and order The 'thin red line' in the Canadian West The Quck and the dead Sam Bass and the Myth Machine The Oklahoma Robin Hood A state of Insurrection and Rebellion	More information about this magazine
May, 1971	Issue: Volume VIII, No. 3 Henry A. Crabb: Fillibuster or Colonizer? The story of an Ill starred Gringo Entrada honeymoon in Hetch hetchy, a 1914 glimpse of a controversial valley Stying float in the patent office: strange fllotation devices of the 19th C Trees of the Totem Culture: their importance to the Northwest Coast Indians Puget Sound's war within a war John F. Stevens: pathfinder for Western Railroads Golden Dreams and Silver realitites: the mechanics of Civilization on the mining frontier The Mountain Bison: Observations concerning a relative of the plains Buffalo	More information about this magazine
September, 1971	Issue: Volume VIII, No. 5 The free silver movement's frustrated promoter Thret to the free spirit: The Question of the mustang's future The Brimhall Saga: the discoveries Homestake: Gold: 1971. Inticacies of modern day mining The Taos Indians regain their sacred land Santa Fe Profile: Preservation of one of America's oldest cities The Big horn medicine wheel: in reply	More information about this magazine
November, 1972	Issue: Volume IX, No. 6 The grey eyed man of destny: adventures of the Only American elected President of a foreign country The Boom of the sunset land, Southern California, 1887 The White Mountains: in the rain shadow of the Sierra nevada Rumrunners on Puget Sound: matching wits with the northwest's craftiest bootleggers Folssil Hunting on the Plains of kansas. Tracking down the Pterodactyle with Professor Othniel C. Marsh The Lost Bowie Mine: the Errant Past, and elusive present, a misplaced hole in the ground Bisbee's civil disorder: in reply	More information about this magazine
January, 1972	Issue: Volume IX, No. 1 1872 Hunting party in honor of theGrand Duke of Russia The Rodilla Towers Court Martial of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper. Example of Black White relationships in the Army, 1881 Invitation to Washington: Seventeen Indians are preserved for posterity: color Pictorial John P. Clum: the inside story of an inimitable Westerner An Auspicious Agreement. Between a confederate agent and Governor of northern Mexico Our frontier heritage and the environment: the Pioneer's questionable contribution	More information about this magazine
September, 1973	Issue: Volume X, No. 5 The second tragedy at Wounded Knee: a 1970s confrontation and its historical roots Exploring the past on Black Mesa: Archaeological studies are providing clues to the history and Prehistory of Indians in Northern Arizona Cannery Row; The dilapidated Moterey factories that John Steinbeck Immortalized are silent now The Olympic rain forest: a place of cool green twilight that supports 'the greatest weight of living matter, per acre, in the world' Robert T. Hill and the Big Bend. An 1899 expedition that helped establish a great national park The strife and struggle of a newspaper in the Old West: a frontier doctor turns publisher	More information about this magazine
September, 1980	Issue: Volume XVII, No. 5 Portrait for a western album: Katherine Stinson: Intrepid Pilot William henry Jackson: photographer or the Scenic West San Francisco's first detective: Isaiah Lees 'greatest criminal catcher' Emperor norton. California Eccentric William de la Montagne Cary: artist up the Missouri	More information about this magazine
November, 1971	Issue: Volume VIII, No. 6 Instant Millionaire: colonial W.C. Greene in Fact and Folklore A Conservtionist views America's Timber industry The Great Sierra nevada: a color pictorial Koviashuktok: the secret of the Eskimo's Wisdom Building a new world: the white man's mighty effort in California Garder in Eden: notes from a native son Mormonism's Negro Policy: in reply	More information about this magazine