by True West | Jul 11, 2025 | What History Has Taught Me
Ernest Marsh Ernest Marsh, a San Francisco native, was the star quarterback of Balboa High School’s 1975 championship team before serving in the U.S. Army and California National Guard as a military policeman and Special Tactical Sniper for Governor Jerry...
by James B. Mills | Jul 1, 2025 | Features & Gunfights
Forgotten Hombre of the Lincoln County War No participant of the Lincoln County War accomplished as much in his lifetime as Martín Chávez. It is therefore perplexing as to how the leader of the McSween partisans during the five-day siege in Lincoln, also...
by TW Editors | May 1, 2025 | Features & Gunfights
The Wild Frontier Trail: A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History There’s a wildness to Wyoming that never quite disappeared. The ghosts of outlaws, lawmen and restless cowboys still linger in the wind sweeping across the open plains. This is a land where Butch...
by TW Editors | May 1, 2025 | Features & Gunfights
Blazing the Oregon Trail: A Journey Through the Past The trail was long, the dangers many, and yet, they came—thousands of souls seeking a new life. From the plains of Missouri to the Pacific’s crashing waves, the Oregon Trail was more than a route—it was the backbone...
by Will Bagley and Ron Walker | May 1, 2025 | Classic True West
Columnist Will Bagley and Brigham Young University Professor Ron Walker present opposing viewpoints to the Mountain Meadows Massacre In September 11, 1857, 120 men, women and children—pioneers from Arkansas headed for California—were massacred after...