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Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 1997

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Table of Contents

Punishing the Elephant: Malfeasance and Organized Criminality on the Overland Trail
Maintaining order beyond the pale of law
by John Phillip Reid
Page 2

Red Cloud, Part I: The Warrior Years
The great Lakota leader's rise to prominence
by Robert W. Larson
page 22

'A Hell of Time All the Time': Farmers, Ranchers, and the Roaring Fork Valley During the "Quiet Years"
Lifeways in Aspen, Colorado, between silver boom and ski boom
by Annie Gilbert Coleman
page 32

Radio in the Hinterlands: KGCX 1925-1993
Building community over the airwaves in northeastern Montana
Introduction
page 46

KGCX: The Voice of Cow Creek
by Bill Knowles
page 48

KGCX: Not a Pretentious Operation
by Clair and Keith Krebsbach
page 60

Essays on the West
Sometimes the Magic Works
(a review)
by Clyde A. Milner
page 68

'Never Take No Cutoffs': The Filmakers' Saga
by Dayton Duncan
page 73

Montana Reviews
page 78
Hoxie, Parading through History
reviewed by Robert A. Trennert

Long, Blue Spruce
reviewed by Dick Harrison

Choy, Dong, and Hom, eds., Coming Man
reviewed by Liping Zhu

Wilkins, John Muir
reviewed by Anne F. Hyde

McChristian, The U.S. Army in the West
reviewed by Bruce J. Dinges

Whaley, Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe
reviewed by María E. Montoya

Korns and Morgan, eds., West from Bridger
reviewed by Susan Badger Doyle

Passet, Cultural Crusaders
reviewed by Emily Bergman

Dolph, Fire in the Hole
reviewed by Neil J. Lynch
Letters to the Editor
page 90

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