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What History Has Taught Me: Dan Harshberger
A Commercial Art graduate of Northern Arizona University, Dan Harshberger grew up with his best bud, Bob Boze Bell, in Kingman, Arizona. In the...
The 65 Most Important Historical Photos From the McCubbin Collection
A charter subscriber to this magazine, which first hit newsstands in 1953, Robert G. McCubbin has been collecting original photographs ever since....
How Was Life in Territory Prisons?
How was life in territory prisons? Jim Spell Sonora, California Life in territory prisons was pretty tough, overall. For example, in Arizona...
Judge Roy Bean
When a passenger train pulled into the little town of Langtry to take on water the passengers had about twenty minutes to flock to the Jersey Lillie...
Mining the Optics
Four-year-old Albert Michelson reached the California Gold Rush town of Murphy’s Camp in 1856, after a voyage that took him from his native Prussia...
A Pinkerton Lie
The Pinkertons say they lured train robber John Reno to the Seymour, Indiana train depot in 1867. According to the story, as the train was rolling...
Who Was the Best Housekeeper in the West?
Competition between madams was especially lively way out in the west Texas town of El Paso where Redheaded Etta “Grasshopper” Clark and “Big Alice”...
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Wear
For 65 years, True West’s editors and contributors have written about the men and women across the country who work hard every day to keep the...
Was Bat Masterson Run Out of Denver?
Was Bat Masterson run out of Denver? Daniel E. Scuiry Berkeley, California Bat Masterson biographer Robert DeArment says, “Yes.” In May 1902,...
Condemning the Jail
The New Albany, Indiana Jail was just a few years old when four members of the Reno Gang were moved there in 1868. They were supposed to be jailed...
The Railroad Comes to Holbrook
Holbrook, Arizona, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado rivers and straddling the new Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, was...