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Did Wyatt Earp own any Saloons in Alaska?

by | Oct 9, 2018

Did Wyatt Earp own any saloons in Alaska? Brett Carls Prescott Valley, Arizona I just re-read Ann Kirschner’s True West article about Wyatt Earp’s...

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

by Mark Boardman | Oct 8, 2018

Wilson Mizner is well known as a playwrite and storyteller. But he was a few other things before that. In 1897, he journeyed to the Klondike Gold...

65 Years & Counting!

by TW Editors | Oct 8, 2018

I have dedicated a good part of my life to seeking the truth about all the Old West characters, places and incidents covered in the pages of True...

Arizona Territory Born Into Trouble

by Bob Boze Bell | Oct 8, 2018

In 1863, a bill passed the U.S. Senate officially organizing the Arizona Territory, and on February 24, President Abraham Lincoln signed it into...

Take Your Christmas Holiday Celebration to a New Level

by Rhiannon Deremo | Oct 8, 2018

Created in 1982, Christmas at Old Fort Concho covers the 40 acres/24 buildings of one of the best-preserved frontier forts west of the Mississippi....

The Thirsty Trapper

by Meghan Saar | Oct 5, 2018

When the hammer fell at $1.5 million on July 28, Coeur d’Alene Art Auction tied with Sotheby’s New York on the highest auction price paid for an...

Whatever Happened to Big Nose Kate?

by | Oct 5, 2018

After Mary Katherine Horony got drunk and falsely implicated Doc the Benson stage robbery on March 15th, 1881 things were pretty much over between...

Tucson, Tubac, Tumacacori, to Hell

by | Oct 5, 2018

In 1861, the U. S. Army was withdrawn from Arizona to fight in the Civil War that raged in the East. The military forts and supplies were burned...

Cattle Queen of the West

by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 5, 2018

For the past few decades Western historians have worked diligently to uncover, research and write a more comprehensive history of the West—a broader...