Wes Studi, fresh from the success of Hostiles, appeared on the 2018 Oscars to present a movie montage highlighting military service, the 70 year old...
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Westward from the White House
Glenda Riley and Richard Etulains’ Presidents Who Shaped the American West is a highly satisfying narrative spanning two centuries. The study traces...
What History Has Taught Me: Alden Big Man Jr.
A former cabinet head of Crow Homeland Security for Crow Agency, Montana, Alden Big Man Jr. earned his Ph.D. in the History department at University...
Tubac on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
The presidio at Tubac, founded in 1752, was the first European settlement in Arizona. The name came from a Pima Indian word meaning “Where something...
What were the Strongest Indian Tribes of the 19th Century?
What were the strongest Indian tribes of the 19th century? Paul W. Hughes Vacaville, California That’s kind of like trying to pick the greatest...
Horse Race at Castle Gate
In the spring of 1894, Butch Cassidy was running a small outfit at Horse Creek in the Upper Wind River country near today, Dubois, Wyoming with a...
Western Events for August 2018
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West this August. Poetry Arizona Cowboy Poetry Gathering Prescott, AZ, August 9-11: Dave...
A Blow to the Head
Buckskin Frank Leslie pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend Mollie Edwards in January 1890. It seemed to be an open and shut case; Leslie killed...
Colorado City, Arizona City, and Finally Yuma
Louis J.F. Jaeger arrived at the storied Yuma Crossing in July, 1850 where he started a ferry business to transport California gold seekers and...
More than a Barkeep
The movies portray Milt Joyce as your basic barkeep, a working owner of Tombstone’s Oriental Saloon. And that’s just one small slice of this...
Doc’s Diet
True West caught up with Dennis Quaid who will serve as Grand Marshal of the Doc Holli-Days parade in Tombstone, Arizona, this August 11. Nearly 25...
Shooting the Silhouette
The story goes that Buckskin Frank Leslie used to stand his wife May against a wall and shoot bullets in an outline around her body—something that...