Discover the Grandeur of the West
Western museums bring our past alive for today’s and tomorrow’s generations. 1. United States Marshals Museum (Fort Smith, AR) “We are Cherokee: Cherokee Freedman and the Right to Citizenship” is on display this year at the museum. It explains the story of...
Grit and Grace
Across the past 150 years of Western American history scholarship, dozens of authors have been inspired to research and write about mining in the West, but few have written about the role of women miners and their contributions to the settlement of the West. Now,...
The Day Tom Mix Died
What really happened on that lonely stretch of highway? Tom Mix had the pedal to the metal on his bright-yellow Cord Phaeton sports car as he barreled along the dirt road from Oracle Junction toward Florence, Arizona. He was in the midst of a cross-country driving...
Clothing for the Cavalry…and Other Frontier Soldiers.
Soldiers on the frontier were issued all the clothing essentials, including socks and long woolen underwear. It was of cheap quality and wore out quickly. And when it wore out, the men had to purchase things like shirts, socks and underwear, shirt and pants. They...
True West November/December 2024
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