LEO W. BANKS, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR After an award-winning career in journalism, Leo W. Banks turned to fiction. His first novel, Double Wide, won...
What History Has Taught Me with Leo W. Banks
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Articles
U.S. Marshals, Oklahoma and Wild Bill
For 70 years, Western law and order history has been popularized by True West’s editors. From Joe Small’s first issue in the summer of 1953 to the...
Riding for the Brand
The Prix de West in Oklahoma City celebrated cowboys and cowgirls. All Images Courtesy the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum In the years...
Ringing the Bell
For the greater good of the state, two visionary women saved a school in Nome, North Dakota. This is a story about two North...
Canton of the North
Lawman Frank Canton’s adventures in Alaska are legendary. In the summer of 1897, Frank Canton was looking for new opportunities. He’d...
Shooting Back
Blame It On The Pig I first met Kevin Jarre at a gathering of Alamo buffs at Joe Musso’s apartment. Dan Gagliasso told Kevin of the gathering. So,...
A Moving Target
When I was a kid, the Old West was 50 years in the rearview, and today my youth is 50 years in the rearview—and—to be honest, more like 60! Yikes!...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings “The devil knows more by being old than by being the devil.” Quotes “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use...
Ranch Life
Ranch Life Dakota Territory photographer John C. H. Grabill, like his peer Solomon Butcher in Nebraska, was a master at capturing daily ranch life...
Today’s Art of the American Indian
No Longer Just About Yesteryear In the 19th century, art of the American Indian was usually viewed through the canvas and brush of...
Tombstone: A Reckoning
Thirty years after the popular film’s release, it might be the most influential Western of all time. In 1993, Walt Disney’s Hollywood...
Blood Money, Time Zones and Old West Jails
Did the Ford Brothers ever get the reward money on Jesse James? Joe Manriquez (Whittier, California) Missouri Governor Thomas T. Crittenden raised...