The highly respected Texas actor and director reflects on a 50-year career in Hollywood. L.Q. Jones, the sandy-haired giant with the high...
L.Q. Jones, a Villain With a Grin
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Riding the Rails into History
The well-known story of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Irish and Chinese men who built it has been recounted many times,...
Magical Mezcal
The Mexican spirit is legendary on both sides of the border. The smoky mezcal (or mescal) spirit, a signature product of Mexico, found its...
True Grit
Eighteen-year-old Susan Magoffin traveled West with her lady’s maid on the Santa Fe Trail. Susan Shelby Magoffin was an unlikely traveler when she...
The Last Ride of Bonnie McCarroll
An on-the-scene account you’ve likely never heard until now. Perhaps the best known photo of a woman bronc riding is the 1915 image of Bonnie...
The Kid’s First Kill
By Bob Boze Bell (based on the research of Fred Nolan & Jerry Weddle) Henry Antrim vs. Windy Cahill “I...called him a pimp.” August 17,...
Bowery Boy to Billy the Kid
Scholars uncover answers and create more questions on the outlaw’s life and family from New York to New Mexico. This past year has been a watershed...
Billy the Kid and the Apaches
The audacious outlaw fought and raided his rival renegades without retribution. All images courtesy True West Archives unless otherwise noted ...
Young Guns
Armed and Dangerous on the American Frontier One-hundred and forty years ago, on July 14, 1881, Pat Garrett shot and killed Billy the Kid in...
The 1841 “Mississippi” Rifle
This handsomely rugged 1840s muzzleloader was prized by frontiersmen and military riflemen alike and helped phase out the smoothbore musket. ...
The West’s First Preservationist Will Surprise You
In Lincoln County, New Mexico, the name John Tunstall is as famous as his hired gun, Billy the Kid. His ambition, his capitalistic competition, his...
Great Danger Rests on the Town! God Save Us!
A doctor and pastor found little healing during the Lincoln County War. It must have seemed like a simple assignment—providing medical care...