In the firearms world, the name “Shiloh” has come to mean the maker of the finest quality modern reproductions of the famed single-shot Sharps...
A New-Old Straight Shooter
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Phil Spangenberger
Fighting Blades of the Frontier
“They say my bowie knife is keen to sliver into halves The carcass of my enemy, as butchers slay their calves.” These two bloodthirsty lines...
Single Shot of Southern Comfort
In 1875, when U.S. Army wife Martha Summerhayes’s Army ambulance was being escorted through Arizona Territory, from Camp Apache to Camp Ehrenberg...
A Hunter’s Classic Returns
To the hunter in the field, probably the only thing better than a powerful and accurate rifle is an improved version. In the latter part of 1935,...
The “Shoot Today, Kill Tomorrow” Gun
During the June 1874 battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle, where an estimated 700 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne warriors attacked nearly 30...
Hideout Hijinks
San Francisco, 1853: As traveler John Steele strolled along a bustling thoroughfare, he suddenly found himself being crowded against a doorway and...
Davy Crockett’s “Ol’ Betsy” Found
In most everyone’s life comes a moment or event that provides the catalyst to their future. In my case, that event was the 1954 TV airing of...
Autry’s Pathway to the Past
Without a doubt, firearms were among the most important tools used in the settling of the West. To quote Jeffrey Richardson, the Autry National...
A Courageous Standoff
In February 15, 1900, as the train slowly steamed to a stop at the Fairbank, Arizona, station, members of the notorious Stiles-Alvord outlaw gang...
True West’s Best Firearms for 2014
Westward expansion took place during the Industrial Revolution, which was also a time of great evolution in the world of firearms. The development...
Home Brewed Gun Show
How would you like to attend a gun show and see hundreds of fine Old West guns and accessories—without having to traipse up and down endless,...
An Ace in the Hole
One frontiersman, threatened with a .22 derringer, slapped it out of his assailant’s hand and said, “If anyone ever shot me with a twenty two…and I...