Like many rodeos around the country, The Pendleton Round-Up canceled its annual celebration, scheduled to take place in its hometown of Pendleton,...
Secure Your Piece of True West History Bob Boze Bell's art from the walls of True West World Headquarters is up for grabs!
For 20 years, True West magazine has been published from behind the walls of its Cave Creek, Arizona, headquarters. Countless pages and covers have...
2020 WRCA World Championship Ranch Rodeo Still on in Amarillo, Texas ...with added performances!
The Working Ranch Cowboys Association and the WRCA Foundation is proud to announce the 25th WRCA World Championship Ranch Rodeo will occur in...
Creative Medicine The Tombstone doctor found new ways to treat patients.
Dr. George Goodfellow is best known as the Tombstone physician who tended to the dying and wounded from the OK Corral shootout. But he did much...
The Translator Dave Cerday did more than just interpret for Comanches and the government.
Dave Cerday is one of those names that is more or less lost to history. The half-Comanche was not really accepted by the tribe or the whites, so he...
An Old Lawdog On The Hunt Wyatt Earp picked up a gun again at age 62.
In October 1910, Old West lawman Wyatt Earp—at age 62—almost got into one more gunfight. Earp was asked to head up a special posse to protect...
Political Shenanigans In San Simon The political election for Sheriff of PimaCounty in 1880...
In the political election for Sheriff of Pima County in 1880, Republican Bob Paul was running against the Democrat, Charlie Shibell for sheriff of...
Riverside Station Stagecoach Robbery On August 10th, 1883 the Florence-Globe Stagecoach was robbed at the remote Riverside Station on the Gila River by the Red Jack Almer gang...
On August 10th, 1883 the Florence-Globe Stagecoach was robbed at the remote Riverside Station on the Gila River by the Red Jack Almer gang. Wells...
Alexander Todd Without having to touch a pick, gold pan, cradle or a shovel, Alexander Todd struck paydirt...
There were many entrepreneurial men who found a way to “mine the miners,” including Levi Strauss, John M. Studebaker, Philip Armour and Ah Toy, who...
A Jail! My Kingdom For A Jail! The Lincoln County (NM) sheriff lobbied for some strong bars.
Perhaps Lincoln County (NM) Sheriff William Brady’s biggest headache in office was getting a jail. When he took office in 1869, prisoners were held...
Regulators And The Rope Some New Mexico outlaws sought their own justice.
Several members of The Regulators were in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, well before the famed war. Among them: Doc Scurlock, Charlie...
Do This, Don’t Do That The code of the West: more suggestions than rules.
Was there a real “code of the West”? The simple answer is, no. Although Zane Grey featured one in his 1934 novel of the same name, there was no...