The Fort that Wouldn't Die Southern New Mexico’s Fort Bayard was built in 1866 to protect settlers from the Apache until Geronimo surrendered 20...
Preservation: The Fort that Wouldn’t Die
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Nevada Territory’s Best
You have to go back some 146 years—back to the days of Nevada Territory—to hear the kind of bragging about the St. Charles hotel that is common...
Pikes Peak or Bust Trail
Sitting in historic Lawrence, I don’t know why those fortune seekers of 1859 ever left Kansas. There’s gold right here, and it’s delicious, as I...
Excerpts from Escape Artist: The Life and Time of John Sturges
You have to work backward from Yul Brynner, who would ultimately star as Chris, the leader of the gunfighters, to figure out whose brainstorm the...
Honky-Tonk Days In Arizona
Gone are the “bulls messing with the heifers” at Sarg’s Cow Town, Abel Hall, the Matador, Chester’s, Riverside Park Ballroom, JD’s and Mr. Lucky’s....
Did Jesse James Jump?
Jesse James dug his spurs into his horse, pushing for speed while bullets flew past his head. For two weeks, Jesse had been running and hiding from...
Riding the Border… for Their Lives
After a hard day of patrolling his 80-mile section of the 4,000-mile border between the U.S. and Canada, this U.S. Border Patrol employee is...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2009
10. WICHITA, KS When a town is known today as the “Air Capital of the World”—Wichita is the home of airplane manufacturers Boeing, Cessna, Raytheon...
True West’s Best of the West 2009 Winners
Here are the winners of our "2009 Best of the West." Sit back and see if your pick made the list. Best Living Photographer of 2009 David...
Hopalong Cassidy
As Tommy Lee Jones mentions, Hopalong Cassidy meant a lot to kids of that generation. William Boyd, who started his career in the Silent Film era,...
Medical Desperation
Who knows the number of times that pioneers, cowboys, military men and others in the Old West suffered from afflictions of one sort or another that...
Cowpuncher Rembrandt
Edward Borein seemed to be Rembrandt reincarnated. A master during the great age of etching in the 17th century, Rembrandt’s oeuvre resulted in some...