Sleek scabbards housed frontiersmen’s six-guns from the days of the California Gold Rush through the closing of the frontier.
For centuries, pistol holsters were strictly utilitarian in design, often consisting of little more than a leather pouch for housing the gun. By 1850, many holsters produced for the new caplock revolvers, such as Col. Colt’s offerings of the da

January/February 2008
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Major Dundee
- Gall: Lakota War Chief (Nonfiction)
- Redemption Falls (Fiction)
- Baby Doe Tabor (Nonfiction)
- How to Yodel (Nonfiction)
- Nez Perce Country (Nonfiction)
- The Good News, Bad News No Country
- Requiem for Billy the Kid
- Petra’s Legacy (Nonfiction)
- Drifting West (Nonfiction)
- Migration Patterns (Fiction)
- Brujerias (Fiction)
- Ride the Trail of Death (Fiction)
- Blood of Bass Tillman (Fiction)
- Sitting Bull Remembers
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- Hidden Treasure in Engineer Mountain
- Garrett’s Death Site Saved
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2008
- Saving Dalton Days
- Can you recommend a reference book on Old West firearms?
- What happened to Davy Crockett’s rifle “Beautiful Betsy?”
- What is cowboy artist Jo Mora’s backstory?
- Did citizens lynch criminals in the West?
- What can you tell me about cowboy actor Tim McCoy?
- Do Indians not have facial hair?
- Is “remada” an English derivative of the Spanish word remuda?
- Top 10 Things to Do in El Paso
- Preservation: History Up in Smoke
- The First Western Holster
- Tombstone, Arizona
- Sweetwater Shoot-out
- Melody Webb
- On the Trail of Sheriff Pat Garrett
- Gutshot!
- What Have You Heard, Shane?
- Did gunfighters carve notches in their guns?
- True West’s Best of the West 2008 Winners