Old Vaquero Saying “You can’t change the truth, but the truth can change you.” Quotes “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new...
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The Edge of the West
William Henry Jackson, a member of the Hayden Survey, photographed the miners working the North Star and Mountaineer lodes at their camp on King...
Will Comstock
Will “Medicine Bill” Comstock was an enigma to many of his contemporaries. Some claimed he was a half-breed Cheyenne, and others that he had been...
Shooting Back
The Many Faces of the Mountain Man A year ago, True West’s cover featured the fine art painting by ZS Liang titled Mountain Man. Liang’s masterpiece...
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Old Vaquero Saying “The most complicated thing in the world is to be able to keep things simple. The simplest thing in the world is to make things...
Stand to Be Counted
Dakota Territory photographer David Francis Barry, well known for his portraits of Chief Joseph and Sitting Bull, recorded census day at the Sioux...
Donaldina Cameron
Chinatown’s Angry Angel never backed down from a challenge. The girls she saved called her Lo Mo, Chinese for Beloved Mother; the men she thwarted...
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Old Vaquero Saying “An arrow can only be launched forward by pulling it backward.” Quotes “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” —Mark...
Land Ho!
On April 22, 1889, 50,000 land-hungry settlers rushed onto two million acres of Central Oklahoma’s Unassigned Lands. The land rush was the first of...
Why did it Become Known as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
The “Gunfight in the Vacant Lot—Next to Fly’s—Down the Block From The Rear Entrance to the O.K. Corral.” Nope, won’t work. It wouldn’t fit on a...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Beecher...
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OLD VAQUERO SAYING "The wages of sin are unreported." QUOTES "The truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." -William...