The Iron Horse and Kit Carson

While innumerable stories about trains, train robberies and the famed trailblazer appeared in True West during its 70-year history, they were rarely featured on the magazine’s cover. Christopher “Kit” Carson has only been on the cover of True West once in 70 years—March 2006—while the first time a locomotive graced the front page was in April 1986—33 years after the first issue.  Technically, the first “train” cover was in April 1972, but it didn’t even show a real train�