On the cover of True West magazine, January 2002, there is a picture of Buffalo Bill Cody. He is wearing a very wide belt and a large buckle and it could be made of brass. Can you tell me anything about it? Bill Dunn via fax I called Lynn Houze, acting curator of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and learned the buckle is not brass but silver. It has four strips of silver, soldered together. The strips are one inch wide and the buckle is 41⁄2” high and 67⁄8” wide. It i

True West March/April 2025
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- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
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- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
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