Was Bat Masterson run out of Denver? Daniel E. Scuiry Berkeley, California Bat Masterson biographer Robert DeArment says, “Yes.” In May 1902,...

Was Bat Masterson run out of Denver? Daniel E. Scuiry Berkeley, California Bat Masterson biographer Robert DeArment says, “Yes.” In May 1902,...
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...
Holbrook, Arizona, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado rivers and straddling the new Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, was...
The one notable theme that has emerged from this year’s short list of Westerns is the tale of the aging tough guy or, less sentimentally, the...
The Reno Gang hit the big time on May 22, 1868. They robbed a train near Marshfield, Indiana of about $96,000—more than $1.5 million in today’s...
Were archery contests held out West? Jennifer Malewski Kansas City, Missouri Archery was practiced almost entirely by American Indians in the...
Once upon a time there was two cowboys named Jake and Tuffy. It was December and there wasn’t much cowboy work so they were spending the winter in...
The story goes that John Wayne was a judge on a talent show for college students in the late ‘60s, and he was very impressed with the girl...
I reflect on my years writing Frontier Fare, I’m reminded of the wonderful historical and literary food journeys I’ve taken. This column has...
William Wells spent most of his life in New York, yet he had a profound impact on the Old West. In the early 1850s, he was heavily involved in the...
Mack Hughes was one of the last of the Hashknife Cowboys. When he hired out for the outfit in the 1920s he didn’t even own a pair of boots. He...
From its earliest issues 65 years ago, True West has consistently recognized the importance of firearms in taming the American West—covering the...