Like gold dust on the mining frontier, beaver pelts acted as the medium of exchange in the mountains. Unique to the American experience was the...

Like gold dust on the mining frontier, beaver pelts acted as the medium of exchange in the mountains. Unique to the American experience was the...
The Lincoln County War was exceptionally violent, and much of that violence occurred in the small town of Lincoln, New Mexico. But murder and mayhem...
Did the Cowboys or the Pioneers use Snowshoes in Tough Winters?
The first white men to venture “across the wide Missouri” were awed by the breathtaking sight of the majestic Rocky Mountains that loomed on the...
On March 23, 2019, the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, held its annual live auction as the capstone to three days of programs, exhibits...
John Wesley Hardin’s youngest brother Gip—like most of the men in the family—led a strange life. He was a Texas school teacher in 1896 when he...
What is the American West and where does it begin and end?” These questions have been debated consistently for well over a century, but after anyone...
John Wesley Hardin’s older brother Joe had a hard time finding a final resting place. After Wes killed a Texas lawman in May 1874, vigilantes took...
Of course, he’d become one of the frontier’s most ardent historians and collectors because history called early to Doug McChristian. He’d always...
Helen Hunt Jackson became interested in the plight of Native Americans in the latter half of the 19th Century. So she wrote Ramona, a melodramatic...
Wherever folks settled in the rugged wilds of the West there remained a desire to keep up with what was happening “Back in the States.” Local events...
The March 2019 Alamo issue of True West brought to mind a documentary I saw a few years ago that claimed Davy Crockett and some of his men were...