Toni Via the Internet Horsemen have used spurs at least since the days of knights in shining armor. Spurs were generally used to control the animal,...
Ed Young Dallas, Texas “Three-Shooter Bill” was a two-bit outlaw and small time con man who earned his nickname because he was only half as bad as...
Patrick Wheaton Camby, IN I called James Denniston in Jackson, Wyoming, who specializes in books on the Old West, and he suggests The Plains Across...
Eugene O’Brien Union, New Jersey The famous photo of the Arizona Rangers was taken in Morenci, Arizona, during the mining strike in 1903. The tall...
When you think Bluegrass, you are thinking Flatt & Scruggs and Bill Monroe. When you hear Bluegrass, you are probably hearing the “high...
Our usually quiet city was startled last Tuesday by one of the most cold-blooded murders, and heavy robberies on record,” The Liberty Tribune...
Celebrating our 51st continual year of publication, True West again brings you our hoarded nuggets, our favorite out-of-the-way secrets: the best...
Glenn Hebert Albuquerque, New Mexico I checked with Casey Tefertiller, one of the best experts on the Spicer hearing, and he says the original...
Roy McKay Phoenix, Arizona Your guide needs to take a refresher course on jojoba beans. They contain no caffeine. He’s right about the cowboys...
Kriya Singh Via the Internet Frederick Jackson Turner, in his 1893 essay, “The Frontier in American History,” claimed the frontier ended in 1890 and...
Charles Herrick El Segundo, California The general consensus, conspiracy theorists notwithstanding, is the U.S. wasn’t involved in any plot to get...
Kent Martin Elkridge, Maryland Some suggest it’s a whiskey flask, while others say it’s a medicine pouch, but it’s a small knife in a scabbard. The...