Blood on the Green Cloth
Fighting for the Faro Dollar: Johnny Tyler and Tombstone’s Gamblers’ War In the summer of 1880, Tombstone, Arizona Territory, was a silver-rich boomtown, and while mining companies and citizens fought legal battles over claim boundaries and town lots, another “battle”...
Dig Deeper into Montana’s Past Sponsored by Southwest Montana
The landscape between Yellowstone and Glacier national parks embodies all the best of Big Sky Country. Around every bend lies another treasure or a story of days gone by. A visit to Southwest Montana is a chance to dig deeper into the state’s robust history and...
I Will Fight No More Forever
Fighting that broke out at White Bird Canyon in Idaho in June of 1877 between the Nez Perce Indians and the U.S. Army commanded by Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, had continued through the summer with engagements along the Clearwater River and at Camas Meadows in Idaho,...
Death of A Mountain Man
“Yet was he modest, never obtrusive, charitable, ‘without guile,’…a man whom none could approach without respect, or know without esteem. And though he fell under the spears of the savages, and his body glutted the prairie wolf, and none can tell where his bones are...
True West May/June 2024
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