Exaggeratin' and prevaricatin’ has long been a cherished right in the West and correctin' a liar is considered impolite. For example, anyone who's lived in Arizona for a spell has already been exposed to the story of cowboy from Wickenburg who heated his brandin’ iron by aiming it at the sun, or the dehydrated cow from Yuma who gave

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus