What really happened on that lonely stretch of highway? Tom Mix had the pedal to the metal on his bright-yellow Cord Phaeton sports car as he...
The Day Tom Mix Died
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Features & Gunfights
Winchester Warrior
P.C. Baird enforces the law on the Texas Frontier. The Texas Rangers are arguably the most famous law enforcement agency in U.S. history, and they...
Sieber Goes Down
The Apache Kid vs. Al Sieber, Then Everyone in Arizona June 1, 1887 Absent from duty for five days, the Apache Kid, along with four other Apache...
The Doctor Was a Woman
With her black bag in hand, Dr. Sofie Herzog broke all barriers as a female frontier physician in Texas. The gunshot victim occupying a room...
Lonestar Destiny
Two years before the fateful Battle of the Alamo, the storm clouds—and leaders—of a revolution gathered across Texas. Things looked up for William...
Best of the West 2024
Celebrating the West True West enters its eighth decade with hope and promise. When Joe Small launched True West from his office in...
Kendrick’s Northern Cowboys
Growing up in the Texas Pan-handle, I often visited a cousin who worked at the 6666 Ranch, one of the old historic outfits in Texas, so I am quite...
The Death Tent
Frank Dalton and James Cole vs Dave Smith, Will Towerly and Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Based on the research of Robert Ernst and George R. Stumpf; with...
Silver Screen Buckaroos
Films and television shows featuring real working cowboys have made America’s icon famous worldwide since 1894. In America’s first...
The Real McCoy
Wyoming cowboy and Army cavalry and horse artillery veteran Tim McCoy brought realism to the silver screen. For a lad of Irish-born parents, his...
Dude or Not a Dude?
Can you spot the real cowboy? Only the photographer knew for sure. Ever since the first camera studio was set up, men and women have posed as their...
The Cowboy
America’s icon still rides tall in the saddle. They call him cowboy, vaquero, buckaroo, waddy, paniolo, saddletramp, wrangler and drover. He...