Bookin’ It
Granville Stuart was a lot of things—merchant, miner, rancher, diplomat, vigilante—and an avid reader. His Montana cabin was filled with books covering just about any topic you can think of, and he would travel far and wide to get them, as shown in his journal excerpt...
Low Slung Guns
A popular misconception among some Old West re-enactors and wardrobe experts is that everyone wore their gun-belts high on their waists and that the low slung gun is an invention of Hollywood. It is true that most frontier fighters did not walk around wearing...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2008
Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will not only encourage federal, state and local governments to continue funding such efforts, but also inspire Western towns to reward its citizens and visitors...
Tombstone, Arizona
In 1877, Ed Schieffelin discovered silver at a site where soldiers from Camp Huachuca warned all he would find was his tombstone. (That was a $30 million blunder on their part.) Local feuds later exploded in this boomtown, with the most notorious being the 1881 O.K....
True West March/April 2025
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