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Bass Reeves and Hollywood

by Art T. Burton | Jan 25, 2021

The real law-and-order hero’s long and Winding road to cinematic and television fame. Interest was generated in Hollywood on Western lawman Bass...

Top 10 True Western Towns of 2021

by Peter Corbett | Jan 25, 2021

Standing Tall Despite the pandemic, American Western towns remain strong and determined to be better than ever in 2021. It’s reassuring to know...

Bill Said He Did. Did He?

by J. David Holt | Jan 25, 2021

Buffalo Bill Cody rode many a famous mile across the West, but did he actually ride for the legendary Pony Express? Near the Pony Express...

Once And For All, Is The Lone Ranger Based on Bass Reeves?

by Art Burton and Mark Boardman | Jan 25, 2021

By Art Burton When The Lone Ranger debuted on the radio in Detroit in 1933, racism was at a zenith in the United States. That the story could have...

What History Has Taught Me: L. J. Martin

by True West | Jan 21, 2021

I thankfully grew up in Bakersfield, in the center of the Oklahoma and Texas of California, Kern County. One hundred miles physically from L.A., but...

Lincoln: Prepare Ye the Way for the Horde

by Mark Boardman | Jan 21, 2021

The president paved the way for the great Westward Expansion. On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for the second...

Shooting Back

by TW Editors | Jan 20, 2021

Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. A Case of...

Black and Blue

by Bob Boze Bell | Jan 20, 2021

Some things just have to be said. In this time of renewed racial contention, it is somehow fitting—and timely—that one of the unsung heroes of the...

Wheels to Fortune

by Michael Engelhard | Jan 20, 2021

Over a century ago gold-crazed miners traded in their sleds for bikes and pedaled their way to their Alaskan bonanzas. In late February, as the days...