“He is, in all, quite a handsome looking fellow.” That was the opinion of a newspaperman fortunate enough to obtain an interview with the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid inside a Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, jail cell in late December 1880. The Kid, as d

True West July 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- True Western Towns: Glasgow, Montana
- Over Land and Water with John Wesley Powell
- What About Old West Waste Disposal?
- Shouldn’t right-handers hold reins in their left hands?
- The Deadly Escape
- What are “long-tailed heroes”?
- Did Billy the Kid Serve as an Interpreter for Irish Immigrants?
- What History Has Taught Me: Shelley Buffalo Calf
- C.M. Russell Rides Again
- A Collector Like No Other
- Were Davy Crockett and his men Captured and Executed in Mexico City?