“We had gone into Hangtown one night for provisions, when we heard that a great strike had been made at a place called Coon Hollow, about a mile...

Standing outside Due West Gallery,  Thom Ross is packing iron. Good thing Wyatt Earp and Pat Garrett  aren’t in Santa Fe, New Mexico, or they’d be...

True West’s Executive Editor Bob Boze Bell, Old West Saviors columnist Jana Bommersbach and Ask the Marshall columnist and Arizona State Historian...

March 15, 1881 Two California boys are riding the box on this chilly night along the San Pedro River bottom in Arizona. Eli “Bud” Philpot, a...

The first time Lee and David Manuel laid eyes on Hot Lake Springs, they thought the three-story brick building could star in a horror movie: it had...

El Patrón is an appropriate name for Benelli USA’s Uberti 1873 Cattleman single-action revolver. In English definitions of the Spanish term you’ll...

Ernest Borgnine, Oscar-winning actor and perennial favorite of movies and TV for more than six decades, died on July 8, at the age of 95. Borgnine...

The secret to producing festivals is the “Disneyland Theory”—always offer something different for your guests to experience every year. Walt changed...

John Moyers couldn’t tell you when he first picked up a paintbrush, but he could tell you when he began his career as an artist. “I always did it,”...

One of the best Wild West shoot-outs involved two Eastern artists. Instead of facing each other in the street, Charles Schreyvogel and Frederic...

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Corps of Discovery passed the first winter of their epic 1804-06 expedition on the northern banks of the...

Nesting in the belly of a beagle, in the cabin of a sternwheeler or in a granary surrounded by flower gardens can give you not only a unique night...