Texas’s Quanah Parker Trail
Discover the life of the legendary Comanche following the arrows in the Lone Star State. Quanah Parker, war chief of the last band of free-roaming Quahadi Comanches, faced the biggest battle of his life. But on this spring day in 1875 the fight would not be...
Kansas’s Santa Fe Trail
Traversing the Sunflower State from Leavenworth to Dodge City Timing, as they say, is everything and that certainly proved true for Missouri trader William Becknell. Once Mexico gained its independence from France in 1821, Mexicans immediately opened the border for...
Trailing Them North
Follow the Western Cattle Trail from Bandera, Texas, to Miles City, Montana. All Images by Johnny D. Boggs Unless Otherwise Indicated Blame it on Babesia bigemina. That little parasitic protozoa found a home in ticks, which found a home on Texas longhorn...
Segregation in the Old West
In the Netflix film, The Harder They Fall, a western movie about black outlaws in the 1880’s and 1890’s, it shows the Old West with “Black towns” and “White towns”! Was there racial separation in the Old West? For example, where did...
True West January/February 2025
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