In 1995, a movie with actor, Don Johnson, called In Pursuit of Honor. It tells the purported true story of Army in the 1930’s plans to kill surplus cavalry horses.
Three sergeants and a lieutenant round up 400 condemned horses from a military post in Texas and drive them to Canada to save them from being destroyed. Is the story true? The movie says it’s based on true story, but the names, ex

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus