True West Magazine

Features

Stamp-ede!

David A. Norris

It Ain’t Really Him! . . . Or is it?

Robert G. McCubbin

Western Books & Movies

The Truth about Hidalgo

Jana Bommersbach

Man Afraid of His Wife

D.L. Birchfield

More In This Issue

Was there ever such a thing as a Buntline Special (12-inch barrel Colt)? If so, do any exist? In this country, they seem to exist only in men’s minds.

Marshall Trimble

When did the Army go from blue uniforms to O.D. (Olive Drab) uniforms?

Marshall Trimble

I’ve wondered how people in the Old West washed their hair. Did they make their own shampoo?

Marshall Trimble

When Gunsmoke’s Marshal Dillon, Doc or Festus visited Miss Kitty’s to have a beer and a steak, would they have been presented with a choice of cuts? And by the way, just what was a “grub steak?”

Marshall Trimble

Did Sheriff Pat Garrett and Wyatt Earp ever meet or have any professional communication? They lived and became famous in the same year. Their jurisdictions were not that far apart, neither in distance nor in time.

Marshall Trimble

Was Buffalo Bill awarded the Medal of Honor?

Marshall Trimble

Do you know who made the cross pistols holster rig worn by Curly Bill in the film Tombstone?

Marshall Trimble

Paying Tribute to the Man in Black

Johnny D. Boggs

Trail Ride Couture

Corinne Brown

Eating His Weight in Democrats

Jana Bommersbach

Elkhorn Ranch

R.G. Robertson

Storyteller of the Native American

Meghan Saar

Esther Morris

Jana Bommersbach

Vera’s Life in the Circus was a Zoo

Jana Bommersbach

Hidalgo’s Hardware

Phil Spangenberger

Ancient Pueblo Culture Comes Alive

Johnny D. Boggs

Morris Publishing

R.G. Robertson

Ambush at Guadalupe Pass

Bob Boze Bell

Gun that Killed Jesse James Sets Record

Meghan Saar

Four Rivers Cultural Center

Meghan Saar

Dodging Fakes

Jana Bommersbach