Pearl Hart was a wildcat on and off the outlaw trail. Few Old West outlaws have had so many myths written about them as Pearl Hart, the Arizona...
A Real Woman Bandit
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Features & Gunfights
Mr. Authenticity
Many fans of Westerns, especially the True West maniacs, are guilty of picking them apart for the anachronisms all too often found in such...
Braves and Badges
Early American Indian Police played a strong role in the settlement of the West. Before recorded history, American Indians practiced some form of...
Shooting Back
The Real Deal: Ben Johnson The November 2021 cover story “Ben Johnson: A True American Cowboy” by Marshall Trimble struck a sentimental chord with...
Truth Be Known
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...
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...
The Roads Less Traveled
Adventures await along the West’s byways and highways to history. As the first rays of the morning sun greet us just over the horizon as we...
City of Dreams
The odds are good that a visitor to Nome, Alaska—landed as a cruise ship passenger or spectator of the Iditarod race finish—will pause before an...
David Wright: A Search for Historical Truth
Validity, integrity and authenticity remain the watchwords of David Wright’s heroic renderings of the frontier. Born in 1942 in the hills of Rosine,...
Chaos of a Boomtown
A Yankee prospector’s scrapbook of his summer in Nome reveals the hardships of the Arctic gold rush. On a stormy May 23, 1900, Connecticut native...
The Last of the Old Time Prospectors
Shorty Harris’s bonanzas and burros were almost as legendary as he was. He may be the last person to have been buried on public property after it...
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...