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The Other Six-Gun

The Other Six-Gun

by | Mar 1, 2005 | Art, Guns and Culture

In sheer numbers alone, the Remington 1861 New Model Army revolver’s record of service is impressive. The U.S. Ordnance Department purchased 115,563 Remington .44 caliber percussion six-guns, representing 31 percent of all revolvers purchased by the federal government...
Following the Arkansas River

Following the Arkansas River

by | Nov 1, 2004 | Travel & Preservation

I’m driving around Wichita, Kansas, looking for the Arkansas River and I can’t find it. That is probably because I’m pronouncing it like the state of Arkansas (with a “saw” at the end) and I find out the people around Kansas pronounce it like their state. Now that I...
True West’s Best of the West 2005 Winners

True West’s Best of the West 2005 Winners

by | Oct 1, 2004 | Art, Guns and Culture

Celebrating our 51st continual year of publication, True West again brings you our hoarded nuggets, our favorite out-of-the-way secrets: the best saloons, the top single action army revolver, the wildest Western towns—the West’s best, bar none. We also share your...
Following Custer’s Guidon

Following Custer’s Guidon

by | Sep 1, 2004 | Travel & Preservation

Born in 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio, George Armstrong (or Autie, as his sister called him) Custer attended Alfred Stubbins Young Men’s Academy. He graduated in 1855, taught at Beech Point School in Ohio and in 1857 enrolled in West Point, where he was graduated last in...
Following the Arkansas River

Following the Nez Perce Trail

by | Aug 1, 2004 | Travel & Preservation

The words are as moving today as they were when Chief Joseph spoke them on a cold fall day in 1877: “I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are all dead…. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have...