In 1864, an irascible 51-year-old Nicholas Earp proclaimed himself a wagonmaster and offered to lead a group of Iowa emigrants to California. Sarah Jane Rousseau kept a diary throughout the seven-month trek, and she has left us glimpses of th

True West April 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Russell True
- Western Events for April 2018
- What was the Most Effective Stance for an Old West Gunfighter?
- How Many Men did Marshal Dillon Kill in the Gunsmoke Series?
- The Fair’s Frontier Fare
- Was John Selman a Bad Guy?
- Peace on the High Plains
- Proving Up
- The Spark that Launched the Vendetta Ride
- Was Josh Randall’s Wanted: Dead or Alive ”Mare’s Leg” Winchester based on a real Old West Gun?
- A Frontier Favorite Lever Gun
- Who has Jim Bowie’s Knife from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo?
- Monkey Business
- America’s Most Famous Firehouse?
- A Treaty Goes Up in Smoke