Most True West readers are familiar with the name Earp, but more likely with Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, James and Warren. You may know Josephine and...

For the 57-year-old lawman, his was an undignified death. Pat Garrett was urinating on the side of the road to Las Cruces, New Mexico, about four...

  History has taught me, via the war, that I am lucky to be alive, and freedom is not free. I got the part in 26 Men when my agent, Harold...

Only John Ford won four Oscars for best director (and two more for documentaries), and he helped invent the Western movie genre. Yet while revered...

Who knew that the first actor to portray Billy the Kid on film was a woman (Edith Storey)? And who knew that reading about so many awful films...

Michael K. Johnson’s Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West is an important tome chronicling the history of...

Chris Enss gives readers a fresh look at love in Love Lessons from the Old West: Wisdom from Wild Women during an era and in a region where strength...

Born in Somerset, New Jersey, on January 5, 1779, into a patriotic family battling the British for American independence, Zebulon Montgomery Pike...

Did anyone ever try to rob a riverboat? Michelle Bryner Henderson, Nevada That’s an interesting question. I found several instances of individuals...

What is the origin of the shot glass? Bob Cox Phoenix, Arizona Shot glasses probably date back more than 200 years, and nobody seems to agree on...

What clothing was issued to the cavalry troops in the Old West? James Rowley Laingsburg, Michigan Near as I can tell, frontier cavalry troops were...

What can you tell me about Billy the Kid’s brother? Frank Cutler Sodus, New York Billy the Kid had a brother, or perhaps a half-brother, named...