True West Magazine

Features

The Racial Frontier

Steve Turner

Tipis on the Terreplein

Lucia St. Clair Robson

Doc and the Wright Stuff

Mark Boardman

She Taught the Kid a Lesson

Frederick Nolan

Western Books & Movies

Scorched Earth

Richard H. Dillon

Sheriff Harvey Whitehill, Silver City Stalwart

Chuck Lewis

The Conquest of Texas: Ethic Cleansing in the Promised Land

Linda Wommack

Imagining the African American West

Cynthia Green

Gunsmoke: an American Institution

Cynthia Green

Hidden Treasures of the American West

Meghan Saar

Blood Debt

William Garwood

Rekindled

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza

Pot Luck

Linda Wommack

Spooky Texas Tales

William Garwood

Guarding the Overland Trails

Richard H. Dillon

Crusaders of the Sagebrush

Chuck Lewis

PBS Cowboys Up with Texas Ranch House

Johnny D. Boggs

It’s Gotta Be the Choctaws

Candy Moulton

More In This Issue

Mail-Order Brides

Jana Bommersbach

Spicing Up Your Kitchen

Jane C. Bischoff

The Old Military Post Road

Lila Lee Jones

Tragic Powwow

Bob Boze Bell

Collecting the West Roundup 2005

Meghan Saar

Prices Ride Tall in the Saddle

Meghan Saar

In Bandolero!, Sheriff July Johnson has the same name/role as he does in Lonesome Dove. Do you know what the correlation is?

Marshall Trimble

What is a needle gun?

Marshall Trimble

I’ve concluded that the James-Younger Gang got more than $52,000 in about 12 years. What do you suppose they did with it? I was also wondering why Frank James, who lived until 1915, didn’t share more about the gang’s doings

Marshall Trimble

Will you help me out? For over 40 years, I’ve been trying to figure out this Steve McQueen line from my favorite Western, The Magnificent Seven: “It took me a long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock.”

Marshall Trimble

The Wagon Master

Meghan Saar

Live at the Parlor

Sandy Whiting

A few years ago, a TV Western aired with a character named Bill Longley. He was dressed in a white shirt, black pants and a black hat, and rode a black and white horse. Was there a real Bill Longley?

Marshall Trimble

One Dime at a Time

Chris Wienk

Playing for Change

Sandy Whiting

Hacienda Brothers

Mark Boardman

The Wild West

Sandy Whiting

The Hanging Judge’s Town

Johnny D. Boggs

Crashyertown

Mark Boardman

Call Me Lonesome

Chris Wienk

What can you tell me about Jeff Milton, who supposedly said, “I never killed a man who didn’t need killing?”

Marshall Trimble

After the Northfield, Minnesota, bank robbery, a photo of Cole Younger shows his right eye swollen shut. What caused that injury?

Marshall Trimble