"The Branding Iron"

[Diane Merkel]

This group sounds like fun!

The Westerners group is dedicated to ensuring that storytellers separate the truth from tall tales. Its Los Angeles Corral members — half of whom are professional historians and half amateurs — have published more than 1,000 accounts about major episodes in the history of the West, including Gen. George Armstrong Custer at Little Big Horn and Billy the Kid, a.k.a. William Bonney.

They have sifted fact from fiction about vigilante groups, gunfights and lynchings, the lasting legends of Pony Express riders and the route of the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach. Their findings are compiled in nearly 250 issues of quarterly booklets called the Branding Iron, as well as in 22 Brand Books and 33 commemorative pamphlets.

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[harpskiddie]

There are, or were, several Corrals of the Westerners and their publications contain a wealth of information. although most of the older ones [the publications that is] are either extremely hard to find or extremely expensive if you can find them. Some of the deceased members were among the true pioneers of research into the history of the West.

Gordie