On Wyatt Earp’s arrival in Tombstone in the 1993 movie Tombstone, the preening and corrupt Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan bragged about the...
Hop Aboard! 18 Historic Train Excursions
The mystique of the Western railroads have been a part of my life since childhood—from my father’s boyhood tales of traveling the Super Chief to the...
Tombstone at 20
A lifelong Western and Horror movie fan, with an intense interest in history and weapons, screenwriter John Fasano was actually focused on Bruce...
The Most Contemptible Character I Ever Saw
During the summer of 1886 in the midst of the Geronimo campaign in southern Arizona, Capt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane wrote dozens of letters to his...
Behind the Mask
Michael Blake grew up in the “business.” His father was a fine character actor who appeared in scores of movies and television shows, including the...
Lt. Henry Allen
Twenty-five-year-old Army Lt. Henry Allen stood in the Alaskan wilderness in 1885, staring up at the giant columns of frozen ice draping down from...
The Herd Decimator
In 1887, an official government study of the decimation of the great buffalo herds concluded that, next to the Sharps rifle, the Remington rolling...
Kaycee, Wyoming
The Old West is easy to imagine in Kaycee, tucked up in historic Johnson County in northern Wyoming. Butch Cassidy, leader of the notorious Wild...
BBQ, Baseball & Beef
Kansas City, here we come. In this cosmopolitan city, you can get fat—literally and figuratively—on food and history. To wit: Barbecue: Kansas City...
Did women wear makeup in the Old West?
Did women wear makeup in the Old West? Bill & Patty Hassoldt Addison, New York Despite the fact that facial makeup has been around since at...
Wonders of Yellowstone
Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America’s National Park, by Jules Leclercq, is a description of Yellowstone National Park as of...
Kurt Russell Recap
We’ve selected some of our favorite quotations from our groundbreaking interview with Kurt Russell. To read the entire feature, visit TWMag.com and...