Was Geronimo a Terrorist?
Geronimo. It is a warrior name for the ages—standing comfortably alongside the likes of Achilles, Leonidas, Genghis Khan, Patton and Rommel in its power—a storied name invoking cunning, courage, tenacity and uncompromising ferocity. On the territories of New Mexico...
Keeping the Peace
It just didn’t seem right that a tombstone was propped up in front of an antique store in Mayer, Arizona. That’s what a casual shopper felt, getting more uneasy when she saw that it was engraved with the 1857 birth and 1909 death of one M.J. Brady. Most people would...
Forts of the Northern Plains
I have a hankering to put some more miles on my car, so I fill my gas tank and head west to visit some of the forts established in the Intermountain West and Northern Plains during the 19th century. I could follow the dirt roads from my house in Encampment, Wyoming,...
1912’s The Invaders
“In the name of the eternal fitness of things, has not this cowboy-Indian obsession gone far enough?” reported Moving Picture World in December 1911. The real problem wasn’t too many Westerns, but that the ones made between 1903, when The Great Train Robbery came out,...
True West January/February 2025
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