"My Aunt Jenny had been taken by the Indians as she was four....” The family bought her back with 500 pounds of shelled corn a decade later, in the...
Lincoln County’s New History
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True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Desert Southwest
From the Grand Canyon to the Texas Gulf Coast, from the Rio Grande River Valley to Oklahoma’s endless grasslands, the Desert Southwest Region is a...
A Tol Tale of Texas
Lyne Taliaferro “Tol” Barret had a big idea—big even by Texas standards. Too bad he was ahead of his time. Barret was born in Virginia in 1832. His...
Where The West is Still Wild…
See Cave Creek (hometown and World Headquarters of True West magazine) in all its frontier town glory at this year’s Wild West Days on Nov 3-5. ...
Do we Know who Killed Bob Dalton?
Do we know who killed Bob Dalton? Paul Randall — Tucson, Arizona. The shooter who fired the shot that killed Bob Dalton on October 5, 1892— from a...
Black Bart’s Epicurean Escapades
Notorious for his 1880s stage-coach robberies, what did gentleman bandit and poet Black Bart eat and where? Everyone thought San Francisco resident...
Cowboys and Conductors
The northern Arizona town of Williams got off to a fast start after its founding in 1881. With the arrival of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad...
Western Events for November 2017
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West this November. Adventure Shade Hardy Ride Morristown, AZ, October 28: This carriage...
How did Pioneers Preserve Corpses?
How did pioneers preserve corpses? George Townsend — Bella Vista, Arkansas. Pioneers preserved bodies in winter ice and snow, when available, or...
Reveille on the Overland Trail
Ohio State Senator William O. Collins, a proponent of war-funding after the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, took a stronger stand for the Union...
The Encounter that Dooms Wild Bill
September 1865 George Ward Nichols and Gen. Thomas Church Haskell Smith, the inspector general of the District of Southwest Missouri, arrive in...
Who is Frank “Pistol Pete” Eaton?
Who is Frank “Pistol Pete” Eaton? Duff Hale — Midlothian, Texas. The deputy U.S. marshal and cowboy told a tale of his life in his 1952...