by Johnny D. Boggs | Apr 1, 2004 | Travel & Preservation
Jesse Chisholm was no cattleman, and the trail he blazed didn’t enter Texas but stretched from the Red River in present-day Oklahoma to Wichita, Kansas. These days, however, the Chisholm Trail is synonymous with Texas, so I’m starting this drive way down south in...
by twadmin | Oct 1, 2003 | Art, Guns and Culture
Celebrating our 50th anniversary, we at True West again reveal our hoarded nuggets, our favorite out-of-the-way secrets: the best brothel museum, the top country music artist, the wildest Western towns—the West’s best, bar none. We also share your picks in the...
by Chuck Parsons | Jul 1, 2002 | Features & Gunfights
Depending on who you believe, the Rangers in Texas began their existence in either 1823, only two years after Anglo-American colonists first settled there, or 1835 when the legislature created a body of fighting men known as the Texas Rangers. Their job was to protect...
by Shirley Ayn Linder | Jan 1, 2002 | Western Movies
It’s possible that Doc Holliday never made a house call, yet there are few Americans who don’t know him. In fact, it’s doubtful that anyone since the 1920s has entirely missed a Hollywood attempt—21 in all—at telling his story. And, though Holliday is generally cast...