Articles Archive

Were any Arizona Rangers Involved in Gunfights in Mexico?

by Marshall Trimble | Jan 8, 2019

Were any Arizona Rangers involved in gunfights in Mexico? Jonathan Smith Rodenberg, Germany Ranger Jeff Kidder was when he took on some Mexican...

Remembering Jeb Rosebrook

by Henry C. Parke & Stuart Rosebrook | Jan 7, 2019

On August 31, 2018, my father Jeb Rosebrook—author, screenwriter and long-time contributor and friend to True West—died at home in Scottsdale with...

All the World’s a Stage

by Mark Boardman | Jan 7, 2019

Jack Langrishe was an actor and comedian in the Old West. He set up a theater in Deadwood, DT which also served as a church and hosted the trial of...

History of Jeans

by Marshall Trimble | Jan 7, 2019

Jeans were America’s first working clothes, then symbols of disobedience only to become fashion items. Their history is long and colorful. The...

What Goes Around, Comes Around

by Mark Boardman | Jan 7, 2019

Robert Martin led a double life. In Arizona and New Mexico territories, he was known as an honest and important rancher. In Mexico, he (and pal...

A Noose and a Scoop

by Jana Bommersbach | Jan 4, 2019

A hanging tree. A blacksmith’s shop. A gold field. A Studebaker. An ice cream saloon. This story was almost lost forever. It would have been if the...

The Oatman Party was near Arizona’s Painted Rock Petroglyph Site when they were Massacred in 1851. Could that have been a Factor in the Attack?

by Marshall Trimble | Jan 4, 2019

The Oatman party was near Arizona’s Painted Rock Petroglyph site when they were massacred in 1851. Could that have been a factor in the attack? Al...

Too Tough to Die!

by True West Editors and Stuart Rosebrook | Jan 4, 2019

We get a kick out of those who talk about the Western myth. What myth? The frontier was as real as a sawed-off shotgun and wilder than anyone could...

Riding Shotgun Across the West

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jan 3, 2019

In 2019, 170 years after the commencement of the Gold Rush, Wells Fargo remains an icon of growth and development of the American West. Established...