Correcting a Misidentification in the C. S. Fly Photograph of the Tombstone Baseball Team As a collector I look for patterns and...
Setting the Record Straight
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The Dancing Horse
The Fateful Friendship of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill The Showman, the Chief, and the Birth of America’s Wild West Spectacle 'Near the end...
Only Hits Matter
Old West gunfighters had two secrets for accuracy when shooting the Colt Peacemaker. Skill was the defining aspect of both the gunfighter and...
Collecting The West
From the Plains to the Parlor Buffalo Bill’s Wild West ignited a collecting craze. When Buffalo Bill began his show in 1883 the general public had...
Old West Saviors
Soldiering Onward after the LA Inferno Unsung heroes like Dr. Brian Dervin Dillon are emerging after the California fires with a message…listen to...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs Ornate in...
An Epic Page-Turner
Relative youngster pens instant classic Congrats to my young friend Paul Andrew Hutton who has a new gig as the interim curator of the Buffalo Bill...
Truth Be Know
Compiled By the editors of True West "Men will travel the world to right wrongs and punish evildoers instead of going to therapy." "Everybody in...
What History Has Taught Me
Ernest Marsh Ernest Marsh, a San Francisco native, was the star quarterback of Balboa High School’s 1975 championship team before serving in...
Cavalcade of Ask The Marshall
Lessons I have learned during more than a quarter century of “Ask the Marshall." What did the expression “I’m your huckleberry” mean? Clinton...
Relive the Golden Age of Western Railroads
By the Heritage Travel Team at True West A True Westerner’s guide to America’s most historic train rides—where frontier lore, breathtaking...
The Gateway to Mount Rushmore
Visit Rapid City, the “city of presidents,” on the way to the iconic monument. Rapid City in western South Dakota is the gateway to...