David Crockett wore many hats during his lifetime (1786-1836) beside his trademark coonskin. He is remembered as a farmer, hunter, volunteer...
Fiddling with History
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Features & Gunfights
The Bloodiest Feud
Feuds are funny things - with one act of violence leading to another (and another and another), it’s sometimes hard to figure out what all the fuss...
Ten Events that Shaped the West
The men and women of the Old West are among the most cherished figures in Americana—the symbols of the making of a country and of hard work, honest...
Fiddling with History
David Crockett wore many hats during his lifetime (1786-1836) beside his trademark coonskin. He is remembered as a farmer, hunter, volunteer...
The Bloodiest Feud
Feuds are funny things - with one act of violence leading to another (and another and another), it’s sometimes hard to figure out what all the fuss...
Cowboys & Indians
The Cherokee Kid is the most famous cowboy Indian known today. His real name was Will Rogers, and he was born in 1879 on a cattle ranch in the...
Corrida de Toros
Which is the more aggressive and dominant animal—a Mexican fighting bull (toro) or an American buffalo? Scotty Philip, a cattle trader well known...
What the Brits are Doing for the West
As any reader of True West knows, interest in the Old West is worldwide—people love reading about the Earps and Custer, Billy the Kid and Geronimo...
Liquor, Cards and Guns
Saloons, with their gambling tables and faro layouts, lined the streets of Old West frontier towns. The predominantly male population had few...
The Return of Crazy Horse
Over the last several decades, great strides have been made to correct some of the historical inaccuracies created by early scholars of the American...
Long Hair in the Old West
This past June, I attended the Dalton Days Classic Gunfights event in Meade, Kansas, and met two re-enactors from Arkansas. They told me the head...
The “Dirt” on Spur Winners
Why Oklahoma has agreed to do the novel of this aging academic, I do not know,” Willard Wyman wrote the editors and marketing department of the...