Anxiety welled within me when I saw a welcoming committee of border patrolmen outside of the ranch that we were about to film in Sasabe, Arizona,...
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The Saddle King’s Mor-Do Ranch
Buffalo and longhorn cattle are icons of the American West. But then so are boots, saddles, chaps, spurs and guns, and for Mort and Donna Fleischer,...
Dubois, Wyoming
The 1880s settlers in Never Sweat, Wyoming, enjoyed the warm, dry winds that flowed across town and the great Wind River. Hunters and trappers,...
Must-Ride National Parks
I’ve always wanted to explore Bryce Canyon National Park. Recently, I was fortunate to be guided by “The Kid,” a black Quarter Horse who’s ridden...
New Kid on the Block
El Paso, Texas, is a city with a past—far more of a past than most communities in the West can claim. It’s belonged to three countries and has a...
The Great Race of Mercy
The place was Nome, Alaska. Dr. Curtis Welch waited anxiously for his prayers to be answered in the early morning hours of February 2, 1925....
The Top 10 Western DVD Collections
Western lovers who think of themselves as the last of a dying breed have to be feeling a little less lonely these days, as there are so many...
Wild West History Sleuths
The History Detectives’ upcoming season features several episodes of interest to readers of True West. The June 30, 2008, show (and these are...
Monument Valley’s 50th
It’s quiet. Too quiet. At any moment, I know—I can feel it—that I’m about to be attacked by a tribe of plein air painters! Oops. There goes that...
Recreating Indian-Inspired Adobes
Drawn to Casas Grandes by its rich history and fueled by an interest in sustainable architecture, Jack Anderson set out to build a business and a...
Modern Cowboys
“Sometimes you wonder why they all bunch up into cities, when there’s all of this,” observes Ron Schaefer, head cowboy at Rancho de la Osa, as we...
Big Bend Mystery Under the Sands
How long it had lain in the West Texas desert, no one knew. It was 1972, and the firearm looked as if it had been undisturbed for at least a...