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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 Nez Perce Trail

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...
State of the Union

State of the Union

by | Jul 1, 2004 | True Westerners

They’re larger than life, these men and women of the Old West who are part of America’s history and its legacy. They were bigger and braver, outrageous and bodacious, mean and mighty—take your pick. If history were static and if icons were honestly painted, we’d...
State of the Union

State of the Union

by | Jul 1, 2004 | True Westerners

They’re larger than life, these men and women of the Old West who are part of America’s history and its legacy. They were bigger and braver, outrageous and bodacious, mean and mighty—take your pick. If history were static and if icons were honestly painted, we’d...