Buckskin Frank Leslie is one of the great names in Old West history, but there’s been no full-length biography of the man—until now. Historians Jack DeMattos and Chuck Parsons have taken up the challenge with They Called Him Buckskin Frank.
It was a challenge; almost nothing is known of Leslie until he was 26 years old and working
True West December 2018
In This Issue:
Features
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Southern Prairie and Plains
- Death at his Elbow
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Northern Prairie and Plains
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Great Basin and Rocky Mountains
- Betting on the Baby on the Bar
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Desert Southwest
- Doc Gets Hammered
- Manipulated into His Own Death
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Pacific Coast
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Eat, Drink and Sleep Where History Happened
- Battle-Tested in the Rockies
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- Were all the Witnesses at the Spicer Hearing Sworn in?
- What History Has Taught Me: John Boessenecker
- Cochise, Cowboys and Cavalry
- The Black Father of Fort Worth
- Doc Gets Hammered
- Kingsville, Texas
- What’s the History of Yuma, Arizona?
- Tombstone 25—A Western Classic’s Reunion
- Norman Rockwell’s Duke
- Raised from the Dead
- How did Old West Pioneers Acquire Honorific Titles?
- A Thirst for Destruction
- The Boss Drink
- What History Has Taught Me: Myron R. Deibel
- Did Virginia City, Nevada, ever have any Notable Gunmen?