Features & Gunfights Archives

Entering the Badlands

by True West | Jul 14, 2021

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!

by Melody Groves | Jun 11, 2021

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

by Juni Fisher | Jun 11, 2021

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 | Jun 11, 2021

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

by Various Authors | Jun 11, 2021

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

by James B. Mills | Jun 11, 2021

The audacious outlaw fought and raided his rival renegades without retribution. All images courtesy True West Archives unless otherwise noted ...

Young Guns

by TW Editors | Jun 11, 2021

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...

Truth Be Known

by TW Editors | Jun 10, 2021

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

by True West | Jun 10, 2021

Six decades after the California Gold Rush, adventurous young men from around the world were still flooding the West seeking fame, fortune and, for...