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WW404A, Aston, PA 19014 FEATURES GETTY IMAGES After a long fight and a tough fght, Chief Joseph (1840–1904) surrenders to the Army, in this lithograph by Frederic Remington. Cover 24 Chief Joseph’s 38 The Capture of New Story Guiding Principle Mexico’s Rustler King By Candy Moulton By Paul Cool The Nez Perce leader is famed for His leadership skills set apart crime vowing, “I will fght no more forever” boss John Kinney from other outlaws, after his surrender in Montana yet he was undone by his failure to Territory in 1877, but he lived by pay import duties on smuggled cattle. the words, “Never sell the bones of your father and your mother.” 46 Chambers of Horrors By Paul L. Hedren William “Persimmon Bill” Chambers 32 Stagecoach was a horse thief and ruthless murderer To Yosemite who in 1876 made life miserable for travelers on the Black Hills Road. By William B. Secrest Highwaymen stopped one stage headed for California’s Yosemite Valley, but fnding no express box 52 Fort Dilts and aboard, they stopped a second stage before the dust cleared. Fanny’s Bid For Freedom ON THE COVER: To honor his father, Chief Joseph By Bill Markley vowed to keep their Wallowa Valley homeland, As besieged emigrants holed up in but he had to flee in 1877 and was never allowed to return. (Cover photo: National Anthropological primitive earthworks on the prairie, Archives, No. 1605207; colorization by Slingshot the surrounding Sioux sent them a Studio, North Hampton, N.H.) message scribbled by a white captive. APRIL 2014 WILD WEST 1 DEPARTMENTS 3 Editor’s Letter 20 Western Enterprise By Jim Pettengill 4 Weider Reader While manager of the Gold King mine near 5 Letters Telluride, Colo., in 1889, L.L. Nunn made good use of a controversial new technology. 6 Roundup “No sale” was the order of the day when guns 22 Art of the West reportedly owned by Jesse James and Wild Bill 6 Johnny D. Boggs Hickok came up for auction. Author Candy Inspired by early Navajo jewelry, Santa Fe 20 Moulton notes 10 great places to visit on the silversmith Dennis Hogan has forged his Nez Perce Trail. Sam Houston calls for “cool, own naja (inverted crescent) designs. deliberate vengeance” for victims at the Alamo and Goliad. Jim Younger scrawls his last words. 60 Ghost Towns By Les Kruger 11 Interview John O. Meusebach built a general store By Candy Moulton and lived in Loyal Valley, Texas, for almost New Mexico journalist Sherry Robinson has long 30 years, but its best known citizen was listened to Apache voices and now discusses her former Indian captive Herman Lehmann. book on the history of the underappreciated Lipans. 11 60 62 Collections 12 Westerners By Linda Wommack Three men have strapped on Colt revolvers, while Mountain men, miners, outlaws and lawmen 64 a fourth wears a sash. —they all get their due at the Sweetwater 14 Indian Life County Historical Museum in Green River, Wyo. By Sherry Robinson Lipan Apache scout Johnson helped Colonel Ranald 64 Guns of the West Mackenzie track down renegade Comanches and By Lee A. Silva Kiowas during the Red River War. E. Remington & Sons’ powerful double-barreled 14 derringer proved a most popular concealable 16 Pioneers and Settlers self-defense weapon for more than 60 years. By John Koster Seth Eastman, once married to an Indian woman, 66 Reviews mostly rendered respectful paintings of Indians, Candy Moulton looks at books about Chief but he is also the artist who painted Death Whoop. Joseph and the Nez Perces, as well as several on-screen presentations, plus reviews of 18 Gunfghters and Lawmen recent books and a DVD review of the third By R.K. DeArment season of Maverick. In 1880s Colorado Sheriff “Doc” Shores called Telluride Marshal Jim Clark “a real fghter 16 72 Go West! 72 with a gun or any other way.” The Durango & Silverton rides high in Colorado. Visit our WEBSITE www.WildWestMag.com for these great exclusives: Onlineextras April 2014 More on Sherry Robinson “I’m so used to reading descriptions of Apaches as smallish and wiry that it was a surprise to find repeated descriptions of Lipans as tall, handsome people,” says the New Mexico author and journalist. 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To add the digital edition to an existing Knife, Spotted Tail, Geronimo and Quanah Parker? subscription, call 800-435-0715 and mention code 83DGTL. 2 WILD WEST APRIL 2014 EDITOR’S LETTER ‘Fight No More Forever’ Sounds Good ome Western Indians had a Perces into Canada to seek sanctuary way with words. No doubt at with Sitting Bull, while Joseph was one times things were lost in trans- of the 68 warriors who surrendered to GROUP MANAGING EDITOR Roger L. Vance lation, but at other times some- the U.S. Army. “After days of siege the thing was gained. Here’s a fa- Nez Perce people were tired, wounded ® S vorite “no bull” quote from the Lakota and no doubt hungry,” says Candy Moul- leader Sitting Bull: “If the Great Spirit had ton, who wrote a biography of Chief Jo- desired me to be a white man, he would seph and the cover article about him in have made me so in the frst place. He put this issue (see P. 24). “All the headmen Vol. 26, No. 6 April 2014 in your heart certain wishes and plans; except for White Bird and Chief Joseph in my heart he put other and different had been killed. Joseph made the deci- EDITOR Gregory J. Lalire desires. It is not necessary for eagles to sion he would surrender and told this to Mark Drefs Art Director David Lauterborn Managing Editor be crows.” Lakota Chief Red Cloud, who Old George and Captain John, Nez Perce Martin A. Bartels Senior Editor fought and spoke well, gave this assess- men who had been scouting for the Army Lori Flemming Photo Editor ment of how U.S. government offcials but who had daughters in the Nez Perce SPECIAL Lee A. Silva treated his people: “They made us many camp.” The two scouts relayed Joseph’s CONTRIBUTORS Gregory F. Michno promises, more than I can remember. words, including his famous quote— Johnny D. Boggs But they never kept but one; they prom- “Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart ised to take our land, and they took it.” is sick and sad. From where the sun now DIGITAL Brian King Director Gerald Swick Editor Historians credit the oft-repeated line stands, I will fght no more forever”—to Barbara Justice Senior Graphic Designer “A good day to die” or “It is a good day Brig. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, who had to die” to an Oglala Lakota participant reached the battlefield on the evening PRESIDENT & CEO Eric Weider Bruce Forman Chief Operating Ofcer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn—either of October 4. After the message was de- Pamela Dunaway Chief Marketing Ofcer Crazy Horse or Low Dog. Had Lt. Col. livered, and recorded for posterity by George Armstrong Custer heard such an Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Karen G. Johnson Business Director utterance from the enemy at Last Stand the general’s aide-de-camp, Joseph rode Rob Wilkins Military Ambassador and Partnership Marketing Director Hill, would his reply have been an au- to the soldiers’ camp and handed his George Clark Single Copy Sales Director dacious, “You bet!” or a humble, “That’s rife to Colonel Nelson A.