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SIX SHOOTER AWARDS NOMINATIONS

REQUESTED DEADLINE – April 15, 2024

We are pleased to announce the 2020 WWHA Awards Program. These awards are intended to recognize and honor those who have contributed the most to research, writing and service to the history of the Wild West. Nominations are due by April 15, 2024.

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The latest information is headed by the date of posting. Previously posted information will be found by date further down on this page in the list of available newsletters. All information will be retained for reference.

Fireside Stories

Real People-Real Places-Real History. See all episodes with accounts of the Old West as told by real historians. Plus our companion series, BUGS ON THE WINDSHIELD at youtube.com

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Locate your favorite Journal or Saddlebag articles, or see what you have been missing. Our Journal and Saddlebag indexes display full years and selected months of content for your research and reading enjoyment.

Juanita Martinez – Mrs. Pat Garrett

A special contribution by William A. Mills

“She was born Juanita Martinez. About 1879, at the young age of nineteen, she was married to Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (1850-1908), the man who later became the legendary sheriff who shot Billy the Kid in
July 1881…”

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