True West Magazine

Features

Hitching Your Wagon to a Star

Jana Bommersbach

The Coming of the Sacred Dog

R.G. Robertson

Handcarts and Heartaches

Dennis Goodwin

Western Books & Movies

Rough-hewn Character

J. Lee Butts

Iron Outlaws in Oz

Meghan Saar

More In This Issue

The Unfinished Line

Meghan Saar

Appaloosa Trading Company

R.G. Robertson

Fill Your Hand

Meghan Saar

Before Manifest Destiny

R.G. Robertson

Which was the best mountain man weapon, the flintlock rifle or the percussion cap?

Marshall Trimble

Trading Post Profiles

R.G. Robertson

In the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bob Dylan played the character Alias. Was he a real person or fictitious? In An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett claims the Kid rode to Fort Bowie with a pal called Alias.

Marshall Trimble

The Bull and the Backpacker

Craig Hamilton

Who was John B. Allen, for whom Allen Street in Tombstone is named?

Marshall Trimble

Do you know the story about a Texas cattle rancher who killed a rustler and tied him to a steer?

Marshall Trimble

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

Phil Spangenberger

Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel

R.G. Robertson

Appaloosa Trading Company

R.G. Robertson

Branded by the Land

Corinne Brown

Hat Tricks

Corinne Brown

Gettin’ Along on the Texas/Chisholm Trail

Johnny D. Boggs

I Shot the Sheriff (and I Killed a Deputy, Too)

Bob Boze Bell

Keepin’ Them Dogies Rollin’ . . .

Johnny D. Boggs

Sarah Winnemucca

Jana Bommersbach

Bug-Eyed at the Buckhorn

Corinne Brown