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Nobel’s Blasting Oil
On April 16th, 1866 a massive explosion rocked the San Francisco Wells Fargo office and surrounding buildings. According to the Placer Herald based...
Memories of the Duke
The Western icon and film hero John Wayne is the star of Michael Goldman’s tribute John Wayne: The Genuine Article: The Untold Story of an American...
Los Goddammies
During time of war Americans have always displayed a fondness for volunteer regiments. Teddy Roosevelt’s storied Rough Riders comes to mind but...
No School Left Behind
When Charlotte Caldwell looked out from her ranch in Shields Valley a dozen years ago, she observed, less than “a mile as the crow flies,” an old...
Cowboy Artists Celebrate 50 Years
Fifty years after Joe Beeler, Charlie Dye, John Hampton and George Phippen met at the Oak Creek Tavern in Sedona, Arizona, and founded the Cowboy...
Arresting Doc Holliday
Perry Mallon was a con-artist, a liar and a fake. And he nearly brought down Doc Holliday. In May 1881, Mallon “arrested” Doc in a Denver...
How did the frontier military travel?
How did the frontier military travel? Marsha Callaway Sedgwick, Kansas During the Old West era, the frontier military traveled mostly by horse and...
Western Events for October 2015
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS Cowboy Artists of America Sale & Exhibition Oklahoma City, OK,...
Wyatt Earp in Hollywood
In a letter, written in December 1928, the 80-year-old frontiersman Wyatt Earp opined that perhaps “my health will be back to normal when this story...
Taste of the West
True West magazine’s “Frontier Fare” columnist and Western Writers of America President Sherry Monahan has recently published The Cowboy’s Cookbook:...
Big Brims
When Sam Peckinpah invited his close friend Jim Silke, an illustrator, to Western Costume in Los Angeles, California, in 1973 to look at wardrobe...