The first white men in the Rocky Mountains were trappers who became known as Mountain Men, arriving decades before Lewis and Clark. Many were of...
Hardy as Bears
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Why is this Man Forgotten?
He was disgusted with what American society had made him into — what they expected of him — and he hated even more failing to live up to those...
Leadville, Colorado
To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the...
Arizona’s Apache Country
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza was born and raised in northern Illinois, but her heart has always been in the West. Her father was a livestock buyer,...
Trailing John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell came to Wyoming’s Green River City in 1869 to launch the first of his two expeditions down the Colorado River. Earlier, in...
“A Glorious Sight to See”
I’ll be the first to admit: I know nothing about the Battle of Spokane Plains. Actually, I know little about the Pacific Northwest, except I admire...
What can you tell me about U.S. Army scout Al Sieber?
ftlupton From True West’s Online Forum Al Sieber was chief of scouts for Gen. George Crook during the Apache Wars. Born in Germany, he came to...
Was Mike Williams an Abilene, Kansas, deputy at the time of the gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and Phil Coe?
George Bourbeau Calhan, Colorado I went straight to the source himself, Joe Rosa, to get the straight skinny on this. He examined available records...
Sunset Limited
So many books have already been written about the Central Pacific, predecessor of the Southern Pacific, that the story of the transcontinental...
SHOOTIN’ THE BREEZE, COWBOY STYLE
When two or three working cowboys cross trails somewhere out in the real West’s wonderful vastness, several occurrences happen after the first...
DANCING WITH THE GOLDEN BEAR
Mountain man Jedediah Smith leads an exploration party of fur trappers in search of wealth and adventure. The third book in Blevins’ Rendezvous...
Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier
Readers living in the Pacific Northwest sometimes lament the lack of attention paid to the history of their neck of the woods by writers of Western...