Do you know the term “starve out,” and how widespread is its use? Nancy Coggeshall Reserve, New Mexico Ramon Adams in Western Words, calls it a pasture on a very few acres of a permanent camp, usually without water and the grass grazed down to bedrock in which horses are thrown in overnight to avoid having trouble trying to catch them in the morning. At one time it was likely a common term in the arid Southwest.

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