Dressed in cowboy hat and boots, I’m walking across the San Antonio Missions Visitors Center parking lot with my four-year-old son when a docent...
On a Mission in San Antone
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Preservation: Indian Days of ’76 Rodeo
Indian Days of ’76 Rodeo HIT: Indian high school students will be documenting Indian participation in the historic Days of ’76 Rodeo in Deadwood,...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2007
Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will encourage federal, state and local...
Broken Trail
Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem a tad presumptuous for the makers of this Western to already be referring to it as legendary? I expect they...
Singing Cowboys
Can you imagine Gunsmoke’s Festus belting out a tune for Miss Kitty? Why not? Do you think Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were the only singing cowboys?...
Mexican Gold Trail
The Huntington Library is reprinting some of its regional classics. This fine Gold Rush journal by George W.B. Evans was ably edited by the late...
The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men
Hollywood director Fritz Lang once remarked that Cinemascope was only good for snakes and funerals. Perhaps today he would have included snakes on a...
Austin, Texas
Waterloo, Texas? Yes, that’s what Austin went by back in 1837 before Mirabeau B. Lamar renamed the city two years later in honor of the “Father of...
Guns of Vengance Trail
Coming from the armories of film studios, including 20th Century Fox, Stembridge Gun Rentals, RKO and MGM, all of which sold their firearms...
True West’s Best of the West 2007 Winners
Here are the winners of our "2007 Best of the West." Sit back and see if your pick made the list. Best Living Bootmaker Paul Bond The year 2006...
Screamin’ Sheb
When former Sen. Fred Thompson took the floor of Congress in October 2002 and declared Sheb Wooley to be an official “American treasure,” Wooley was...
What was the largest outlaw gang—in terms of numbers of members—in the Old West? Butch & Sundance were hardly a gang, numbering a handful at most.
What was the largest outlaw gang—in terms of numbers of members—in the Old West? Butch & Sundance were hardly a gang, numbering a handful at...