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Western Roundup: April 2022
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Breakenridge, Breweries and Rattlesnakes
I was reading some stories about Tombstone; some historians have speculated that Billy Breakenridge may have been gay? Is this true? Paul Gortarez...
What History Has Taught Me: Samuel K. Dolan
Writer, Producer, Historian Samuel K. Dolan is a writer and Emmy Award-winning television producer based in Montana. His career in film and...
Caplock Rivals
Two open-top and solid-frame designs reigned supreme in the age of percussion revolvers, and each type had its advantages and drawbacks. ...
Western From Head to Toe
Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction in Mesa, Arizona, is always a movie collector’s paradise. All Images Courtesy Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction Unless...
Big, Bigger, Biggest
It doesn’t get much sweeter than this in rural Nevada. They probably pulled $10 million in copper out of the mines around McGill, Nevada, in its...
A Plague Upon Your House!
A 1900 epidemic foreshadowed modern issues. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. An epidemic rears its ugly head. Federal and state officials...
Shooting Back
Canadian vs. Montana Peak I have just been re-reading True West’s November 2021 issue and discovered an error in the caption of the photos of the...
Hats off to 1883
Our new favorite show in the Land of the Nitpickers. All Images of “1883” Courtesy Paramount+/Robert Duvall Image Courtesy CBS Television We love...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Saying “Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.” Quotes “We are all travelers in the wilderness of...
Circle the Wagons!
Emanuel Leutze’s 1863 oil Indians Attacking a Wagon Train vividly captured and perpetuated the fears of Americans migrating West on the Overland...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2022
Where History Happens Vigilant stewards keep the Old West alive in these Top Ten Towns. Since the Manifest Destiny doctrine was expressed in the...