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 April 2020
In This Issue:
Features
- Brothers in Blood: Jesse James and Billy the Kid
- Jesse James: The Birth of a Killer
- Birth of an Outlaw Hero
- Special Classic Gunfights: Shoot-out at Stinking Springs
- True West Exclusive: Long Lost Jailhouse Interview with Billy the Kid and Illustration Uncovered
- To Hell on a Fast Horse – Ten Years On
- And Die Like a Soldier
- Western Movies Special: Rebel Raider to Rebel Hero
- On the Road Again
- Black Hills Gold
- Strike it Rich
- Across the Old Southwest
- Gold in Those Wyoming Hills
- Pillars of the Plains
- History Haunts Nevada’s Byways