“The wind is all,” Jon Chandler writes in his brilliant novel Wyoming Wind. “The wind is ever present.” Boy, he wasn’t kidding, even if he was...
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Out-pumped
By the early 1880s, Colt was the undisputed leader in the handgun field. Wishing to capture some of the rifle market, however, Colt acquired the...
Bucking the Trends
To improve our reporting of the newest and most innovative Western garb, home decor, food and other items of interest, we are premiering True West...
Keepin’ Our Love Alive and Kickin’
A box of Quaker Oats was the first product endorsement by the King of the Cowboys, and ever since 1943, he has lent his name and smiling face to cap...
Word Baron
In over 75 books from the Rivers West series to those on the Baron family of Texas, Jory Sherman has brought to life a complex mix of stories and...
Death Rides a White-Faced Horse
May 19, 1881 Curly Bill Brocius is holding court in Galeyville, Arizona, with his cow-boy cohorts. Jim Wallace, a veteran of the Lincoln County War,...
More than Just a Muse
Jim Lauderdale is a critically acclaimed songwriter, yet his own music is not widely known by the public at large. Jim’s songs have been recorded by...
Pistolero Pasta
A bit of mystery surrounds the once popular genre of films, indelicately called Spaghetti Westerns during their heyday. For many years, a trilogy of...
Frontier Women at Arms
When Frank Butler loaded his guns at a fairground outside Cincinnati, Ohio, one spring day in 1881, the last thing in his thoughts was a legend...
Hollywood’s “5-in-1” Movie Blank
A “5-in-1” is a blank cartridge, originally designed in the early days of motion pictures, for use in a number of similar, but differently chambered...
More Bucks and Other Changes
Peanut shells litter the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo’s “green room.” A minister prays with a young cowboy, preparing him for his bull...
West Texas in the Daylight
All those years when I hung my hat in Dallas / Fort Worth, I told myself the best way to drive across West Texas was at night. I mean, what’s there...