As a kid I saved up six hours of babysitting money every week to pay for one hour of horseback riding at a local stable.
The hardest part of writing is believing you’ve been clear, logical and charming, only to have a copy editor show you how wrong you are.
Don’t get me started on current events.
Not many people know that while I seem very easyg

True West April 2019
In This Issue:
Features
- The Lone Star Line
- Lewis and Clark’s Big Sky Country
- Kansas’s Highways of History
- Rocky Mountain Gold
- Kevin Costner
- The Legendary Maney Gault
- Trails, Rails, and Automobiles
- Zip Zapped!
- The Forgotten Hero
- Frank Hamer vs. Bonnie and Clyde
- Mormon Handcarts Track Across Wyoming
- Crossfire
- A Texas Ranger Earns His Spurs
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Mary Doria Russell
- Who Repaired the Telegraph Lines if They Were Down and How Long Did it Take to Fix Them?
- How Often were Wagon Trains Attacked by Indians?
- How Did Men and Women Keep Their Hats on When Riding Fast or in High Wind?
- Zip Zapped!
- Colts For the Other Buffalo Bill
- Wranglers are Seldom Shown or Mentioned in Westerns. Did the Cowboys Take Turns at that or was it a Full-time Job during a Cattle Drive?
- Standing Bear’s Trials to Indian Rights
- The Heart of Willcox
- I Found a Portrait of my Great-Great Grandfather Holding a Cocked Revolver, circa 1870s. Was That Common?
- The Western Auction of the Year
- Who Shot Joseph Heywood?
- A Faithfully Tasty Holiday
- The Bullet, Not the Ballot Box