Billy the Kid’s legend has hovered over the landscape of the American West for 125 years, a Hindenburg of hype and fantasy, always there to nourish...
The Billy Buff War
read more
Articles
The Desert Southwest (Nonfiction)
Our Western prehistory is so full of mystery that any clues we can find are welcome. By looking to the pots left behind by prehistoric peoples in...
The Doctor Wore Petticoats (Nonfiction)
The Western frontier, dominated by the male gender, did not take kindly to female physicians. Yet, most female doctors succeeded despite the overall...
The Oatman Massacre (Nonfiction)
On a trek to find the “Land of Bashan” as prophesied in the Book of Mormon, Roys Oatman led his family of nine into the brutal Sonora Desert. On the...
God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West (Nonfiction)
The West is the home of individualism, liberty and religious freedom. Well, not always. Three tragic exceptions to this mythology are examined at...
Passin’ Through Louis L’Amour Land
He sat motionless, starin’ ahead, aware of everythin’ around him. In this country, patience meant survival. Too often, the first to move became the...
Buffalo Bill’s Columbus Adventure
In May 1883, the population of the small frontier town Columbus, Nebraska, swelled by 73 people when several passenger cars and six boxcars of...
Sports in the Wild West
If you mention the word “sports” in the same breath with the “Old West,” most people will give you a blank stare. Yet sports were as much a part of...
Broken bit & Spur
In his work on more than 100 films, Bud Cardos has done it all: stuntman, actor, unit production manager, line producer and director. Even though...
A Soirée at the Sheridan Inn
More than 1,000 people stood in the snow outside the historic Sheridan Inn on January 28 to celebrate the town being named True West’s #1 True...
The Tale of Two Russells
When an auction is called the C.M. Russell Auction, you pretty much know who the main attraction is going to be. But at this year’s event, another...
The Klondike Gold Rush Trail
Alaska and the Canadian Northwest remain dangerous country. People get eaten by bears. They die of exposure. Probably a few are trampled by hordes...