Marcella Bloomfield Middleton, New York Bill Kelley, editor of the Epitaph, organized the first Helldorado Days in 1929. The following year, he sold...
Craig Brewer Fairdale, New York Zwing Hunt is one of the more interesting characters in the Tombstone saga, but there is no known photo of him. He...
I’m driving around Wichita, Kansas, looking for the Arkansas River and I can’t find it. That is probably because I’m pronouncing it like the state...
Richard Diaz Shreveport, Louisiana In 1879, the Texas legislature appropriated three million acres of land in the Texas Panhandle to finance a new...
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...