Old Vaquero Saying “After the rabbit has gone, it is time to pound your hat on the grass.” Quotes “All things share the same breath—the...
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Features & Gunfights
Entering the Badlands
In 1905, Edward S. Curtis completed his fieldwork with the Sioux tribe in the Badlands of South Dakota. This photograph, Entering the Bad Lands,...
Ride That Train!
Towering pines whirl past an open window ushering in pine-scented breezes. The click-clack of train wheels underneath relaxes riders. Puffs of...
The Last Ride of Bonnie McCarroll
An on-the-scene account you’ve likely never heard until now. Perhaps the best known photo of a woman bronc riding is the 1915 image of Bonnie...
The Kid’s First Kill
By Bob Boze Bell (based on the research of Fred Nolan & Jerry Weddle) Henry Antrim vs. Windy Cahill “I...called him a pimp.” August 17,...
Bowery Boy to Billy the Kid
Scholars uncover answers and create more questions on the outlaw’s life and family from New York to New Mexico. This past year has been a watershed...
Billy the Kid and the Apaches
The audacious outlaw fought and raided his rival renegades without retribution. All images courtesy True West Archives unless otherwise noted ...
Young Guns
Armed and Dangerous on the American Frontier One-hundred and forty years ago, on July 14, 1881, Pat Garrett shot and killed Billy the Kid in...
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Old Vaquero Saying “The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.” Quotes “Have...
Young Guns South of the Border
Six decades after the California Gold Rush, adventurous young men from around the world were still flooding the West seeking fame, fortune and, for...
Wide Open Spaces and Western Wonderlands
The summer of 2021 is a great time to travel across these Old West highways. The West is a grand place to travel, and its many highways and...
Ambushed on the Pecos
The Courageous Life and Death of Oliver Loving In 1867, beneath a bluff a few miles from Carlsbad, New Mexico, two Texas cattlemen—one of them a...