Once upon a time there was two cowboys named Jake and Tuffy. It was December and there wasn’t much cowboy work so they were spending the winter in the Montana mountains trapping and prospecting for gold.
They were riding through a narrow canyon when a blizzard hit. The wind was blowing hard and the temperature began to drop. Jake pulled out his pocket watch and looked at it to se

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows