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Rifle Packin’ in the Old West

Rifle Packin’ in the Old West

by | Jul 1, 2007 | Art, Guns and Culture

While the six-gun may have reigned as king of the silver screen West, in the real Old West, it was a different story. True, the handy six-shooter played a pivotal role in both making the West wild and taming the land and its people, but it was the trusty long gun—be...
A People at War

A People at War

by | Jul 1, 2007 | Western Books

This is not, exactly, a history of the homefront during the Civil War. Its subtitle, “Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War,” includes the military, while the book’s time span extends the scope of this study from pre-war Bleeding Kansas to 1877, when the last...
A People at War

A People at War

by | Jul 1, 2007 | Western Books

This is not, exactly, a history of the homefront during the Civil War. Its subtitle, “Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War,” includes the military, while the book’s time span extends the scope of this study from pre-war Bleeding Kansas to 1877, when the last...
Month of Atonement

Month of Atonement

by | Jun 2, 2007 | Western Movies

This must be the month of atonement because culpability for ancient and unaddressed sins is the overriding theme of the summer, on TV and in the movies. It’s no stretch to imagine that the creators of these works mean them to reflect on our current activities as a...
Tombstone’s Flying Monster

Tombstone’s Flying Monster

by | Jun 1, 2007 | Features & Gunfights

One of the West’s most fascinating cold cases involves a flying monster, a dying town and a disappearing photograph. For decades, people have been trying to solve the mystery of the “Thunderbird photograph.” True West doesn’t pretend to have all the answers, but we...