by | Oct 18, 2022 | True West Blog
Did cowboys or gunfighters have tattoos? And if so what kind of tattoos? Tattoo’s go back thousands of years. In this country many Native American tribes wore tattoos. In 1846 a man named Martin Hildebrandt, began his career as a tattoo artist. He was among the...
by | Oct 10, 2022 | True West Blog
From Hardee’s Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics, regarding daily rations: Looking at the soldier’s rations, note the specific inclusion of green coffee beans. At the time, most Americans typically roasted their own beans over a fire. While there were dedicated...
by Phil Spangenberger | Sep 22, 2022 | Features & Gunfights
Nowadays, Old West fans can enjoy solid, shooting replicas of the six-guns and long-arms packed by the legendary gunmen of yesteryear. While many of the well-known good and bad men of the American frontier have been associated with one or two firearms, most of them...
by Henry C. Parke | Sep 22, 2022 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies
Fifty years after its release, Robert Aldrich’s Western stands out as a classic in an era when the genre is waning. In 1972’s Ulzana’s Raid, the title character is an Apache war chief who escapes the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a...
by True West | Sep 4, 2022 | True Westerners, What History Has Taught Me
Educator and Historian Jane (Janie) Little Botkin, a Spur Award-winning biographer, seeks compelling stories of women, miners, lawmen and outlaws. Her most recent bio is The Girl Who Dared to Defy (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021) about activist Jane Street. The...