Kevin Hogge is an Old West enthusiast who is part of an elite group of riders and historians who have ridden the trails of Wyatt Earp in southern Arizona, Billy the Kid in New Mexico, and Charles Goodnight and Col. Ranald Mackenzie in the Texas Panhandle.
Hogge, a Virginia native who makes his home in Chesapeake, grew up at a time when TVs were black and white, and Westerns ruled the air waves. His heroes were Matt Dillon and Wyatt Earp. He was drawn to a study of the people and places leading

True West March 2018
In This Issue:
Features
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Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Brian Downes
- Does Consumption Exist Today?
- Cattle, Cowboys and Culture
- Western Events for March 2018
- Back to Basque
- Sarah “Great Western” Bowman Reportedly Died of a Tarantula Bite. Is Tarantula Venom that Poisonous?
- Fake News Guru
- The Oatman Massacre
- What Happened to the Scalp that “Buffalo Bill” Cody Took from Cheyenne Warrior Yellow Hair at Warbonnet Creek in 1876?
- America’s First Cavalry Blade
- Gem City of the Plains
- Big Year for Custer Guns
- How are Cattle Brands read, and how do Ranchers select them?
- Sitting with Wyatt Earp
- Is Pancho Villa’s “Punitive Expedition” the same as the “Mexican Expedition?”
- The Suspect Savannah Strike