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Features & Gunfights
Spur Talk
The day Bill McDonald rode over the hill leading the Appaloosa, Slim and I were repairing the corrals. Slim was running Pete Coleman’s little...
Chalk Level Shoot-Out
The Youngers vs. The Pinkertons The Bushwhackers Score A Goal Shot Down in the Missouri Wilds Based on the research of John Langellier and Jack...
In the Lens of History
A century ago, the state of Montana was still one of the youngest states. The Rocky Mountain and Great Plains state received its star on Old...
Charlie Russell The Humorist
The legendary Montana cowboy is well known for his cowboy art, but he was also quite funny and sometimes ribald (some would say scandalous!). Here...
The Legendary Four Sixes Ranch
The ranch was founded 155 years ago by men and women who are as mythical as they are real. Ranching has always been something of a...
Yellowstone Cowboys
The real story of Teddy Blue and how he became Montana’s greatest cowboy. “We all got well lit up and went to a hot show on Blake Street,” wrote...
Cowboys Rule!
Working cowboys and cattle drives have dominated the covers of True West for 70 years. Did True West’s founder Joe Small have a soft spot in his...
Punch Your Ticket!
Escape to America’s favorite heritage railway towns from coast to coast for adventure and fun for all ages. Amtrak serves 500 American...
Delivering Justice
One determined lawman brought in the big guns. During the rough and woolly days of the 19th century lived a legendary generation of U.S. marshals...
The Deadly Escape
Billy the Kid vs Olinger & Bell Against All Odds April 28, 1881 Godfrey Gauss and Sam Wortley live behind the Lincoln Courthouse....
Did the Devil Make Me Do It?
Manifest Destiny, westward expansion and the California gold rush were fertile topics for humorists and satirists of the 1840s and 1850s. “A man...