Picked to “Carry A. Nation”
She so believed the Lord picked her to “Carry A. Nation” into Prohibition, this ax-wielding, saloon-destroyer changed the spelling of her first name. To this day, the woman originally born Carrie Amelia Moore is remembered lovingly as a prohibition crusader, or...
True West’s Best of the West 2005 Winners
Celebrating our 51st continual year of publication, True West again brings you our hoarded nuggets, our favorite out-of-the-way secrets: the best saloons, the top single action army revolver, the wildest Western towns—the West’s best, bar none. We also share your...
Following Custer’s Guidon
Born in 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio, George Armstrong (or Autie, as his sister called him) Custer attended Alfred Stubbins Young Men’s Academy. He graduated in 1855, taught at Beech Point School in Ohio and in 1857 enrolled in West Point, where he was graduated last in...
Re-enactors Bring Realism to Movies
GODS AND GENERALS More than 7,500 re-enactors brought the Civil War to life in Gods and Generals, released on February 21, 2003. Director, producer and film writer Ron Maxwell stressed that if there were no re-enactors, there would have been no movie. “The reenactors...
True West May/June 2024
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