Picture-Perfect Custer
There must be five hundred pictures of Custer’s Last Stand, and not two dozen of the Washita,” wrote renowned art historian Brian Dippie in 2009. One of those two dozen sold as the top George Armstrong Custer lot at Heritage Auctions on December 11-12, 2012, an...
The Gentleman Vigilante
Ever heard of Elias Whitcomb? The Old West is full of brave Indian fighters who settled our country, yet never made dime novels or campfire songs. Whitcomb was one who escaped notoriety despite his outrageous exploits and tight links with notorious killers enshrined...Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle?
Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle? Paul Hughes Vacaville, California Historians still struggle to corroborate or disprove this claim. Some 50 years after the fight, two Cheyenne women asserted they had pierced George Custer’s ears...
The Arizona Rangers
The dawning of the 20th century brought little improvement to the notorious reputation Arizona had earned during the tumultuous years of outlawry and the Indian Wars. The close proximity to Mexico and the rugged mountain wilderness in the eastern part of the territory...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
