Education in Early Arizona
The three R’s, readin’, writin’, and ’rithmetic, like many other cultural conveniences, were late arriving on the Arizona frontier. The first territorial legislature in 1864 provided for a system of public schools but levied no school taxes. Two hundred and fifty...
The 1873 Trapdoor Springfield—One Model, Many Changes
Despite the prominence of repeating rifles of the late 19th century, the U.S. Cavalry largely relied on this single-shot carbine to bring an end to the Indian Wars. The U.S. Army of the 19th-century West faced challenges that made frontier warfare...
Aimee Semple McPherson
Arizona played a part in one of the great hoaxes of the 1920s when Aimee Semple McPherson, a popular Hollywood show business evangelist, was allegedly kidnapped by a band of kidnappers. Aimee was born the daughter of a zealous tambourine-thumping soldier in the...
Walter Hill Returns
The award-winning Hollywood icon saddles back up for Dead for a Dollar, a new Western. Having not directed a Western since 2006’s Broken Trail, Walter Hill is happy to be back in the saddle again. “Oh, it’s very good. I like making Westerns. I think I’ve...
True West July/August 2025
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