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Wild, Wild Truths
Sometimes the truth is wilder than anything you can make up.
From The Blog
She Couldn’t Take a Joke
May Woodman’s response came with a bullet. Count Billy Kinsman among those who have markers at Tombstone’s Boothill—but the bodies […]
Snake Bites
How did people on people treat snake bites before anti-venoms? A common treatment was the ubiquitous cure-all, whiskey, but alcohol […]
Brushy Bill Roberts
I received a letter a while back from a True West reader asking for my opinion on Brushy Bill Roberts’ […]
Features
The Best of Butch’s Wild Bunch
How the real outlaws who rode and robbed from Montana to Bolivia became cinema heroes.
High Country Adventure
Discover the Old West while relaxing in 10 of our favorite cool, mountain getaways.
Queen of the Wild Bunch
Ethel "Etta" Place and The Sundance Kid's outlaw love affair.
A Legend is Born
How a Pennsylvania kid went west, became The Sundance Kid and joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch.
Butch & Sundance & Pike & Dutch
How two films from the summer of '69 changed westerns forever.
Departments
Ask the Marshall
Was the Civil War Vintage LeMat Revolver Ever Modified to take Brass Cartridges?
The Frontier’s Movable Kitchen
Traditional chuck wagon cooking can be enjoyed at a local festival or right at home.
1911 Pistol Goes Western
Used in the West of early 1990s, the classic auto pistol looks right at home in frontier-style gunleather.
Ask the Marshall
How Did Frontier Explorers and Residents Deal with Ticks and Chiggers?
The Adventures of Calamity Jane
Discover the wild woman of the West in a circuitous tour of Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana.
Moran Masterpiece Tops in Scottsdale
Western art is alive and well at the annual Arizona auction.
Ask the Marshall
Who was in Charge of Keeping Western Streets Clean?
Ask the Marshall
Did Jim Bowie have his Famous Knife at the Alamo?
Ann Bassett, Colorado’s Cattle Queen
She fought outlaws, gunmen and rustlers...and won.
Placerville, California
Discover the historic gold rush community and its glittering history.
Pueblo Grande Celebrates 90 Years
Phoenix's archaeological gem protects the area's first city.
Battle for the Promised Land
Missourians weren't exactly welcoming to an influx of Mormons.
The End of The Line
Two "Americanos" vs a Uyuni Posse.
Ask the Marshall
How Far Apart Were Water Holes and Stations?
Western Books & Movies
Blood, Love and Brotherhood
W.K. Stratton's The Wild Bunch sets a new standard for film-biography, and new biographies of an Army scout and Estaban, the diary of pioneer John Benton Hart and a novelized memoir of outlaw Cole Younger.