Twenty-year-old Eva Dugan took the alias Claw-Finger Kitty while she was working as a prostitute during the Alaska Gold …
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The Searchers Merits of the film and the facts behind it.
A question came in recently from a True West reader about the premise of Alan Le May’s great novel, The Searchers, the s…
The Other Assassin The sad case of Charlie Ford.
Charlie Ford is the lesser known of the brothers who killed Jesse James—sibling Robert actually pulled the trigger. Char…
Anarchy on the Rails How the Pullman strike brought America to its knees
In 2019, Jack Kelly’s The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in Ameri…
The Fruits of their Labors The Ford brothers didn’t get what they expected for killing Jesse James.
Robert Ford hoped that killing Jesse James would bring fame and fortune. But Ford and brother Charlie were convicted of …
Did Ballistics Forensics Ever Come into Play in Solving Crimes in the Old West?
Did ballistics forensics ever come into play in solving crimes in the Old West? David Aufiere Columbia, Louisiana Ballis…
Was Doc Holliday Really a Deadly Dentist? More than one writer has called Doc a "deadly dentist" who killed several men during his turbulent life.
More than one writer has called Doc a “deadly dentist” who killed several men during his turbulent life. Mos…
The Diné Return to the Four Corners One hundred fifty years later, follow the Navajo people’s poignant route home from New Mexico to Arizona.
Fort Sumner, New Mexico, has never been an easy place to live. Winters can be brutal. Summers are often blistering. The …
Justice Frontier Style Judge Charlie Meyer's contributions to law
Many frontier towns had no official judge and usually a man respected for his wisdom would be called upon arbitrate disp…
Yellowstone Was Only the Beginning President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill creating the first national park in the world in 1872
July is the busiest month for Yellowstone National Park, where vacationers find a cool respite from the sizzling heat. T…