Long before rappers layered on “bling,” Hollywood cowboys and Western musicians donned their shimmering silver, gold and copper. Arguably the premier creator of Western glitz was a Swede—Edward Bohlin. As a teenager Bohlin boldly signed on to a four-mast schooner’s crew, but the sea was only a means to reach his dreams. The lure

True West November 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Wyatt’s Stallion, the Apache Kid and the Code of the West
- Ask The Marshall
- Geronimo Steals the Show
- If the State Won’t Do It
- Santa Fe Art Pilgrimage
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Prescott, Arizona
- Western Roundup
- Pioneers and Their Pies
- Alaska at 60
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Bullets, Bread & Bad Behavior
- Ask the Marshall
- What History Has Taught Me: W. Michael Farmer, Author