Lincoln’s Western Past
At first, I think I’ve made a wrong turn somewhere, because this doesn’t feel like the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. It’s more like…Disneyland. Don’t get me wrong. Springfield, Illinois, Honest Abe’s home and final resting place, should brag about...
One Man’s Dream
When she was a seventh grader, Lori White knew Kenneth “Dobby” Lee as her school bus driver in Alliance, Nebraska. She later found out that he had been a carpenter and mayor of the town before he began driving kids to school. After he retired at age 65, she attended...
In Search of the West
Can you imagine walking in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery as they saw the Pacific Coast for the first time? Fighting the Comanches on the frontier lines with the Texas Rangers? Following the Santa Fe Trail from Bent’s Fort to Santa Fe with...
Valiant Surgeons in Army Blue
“There was one class of officers who were entitled to all the praise they received and much more besides, and that class was the surgeons, who never flagged in their attentions to sick and wounded, whether soldier or officer, American, Mexican, or Apache captive, by...
True West January/February 2025
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Western Books & Movies
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