Riding for the Guidon
U.S. Cavalry School at Little Bighorn Battlefield is a real-life history lesson. I stood on the banks of the Little Bighorn River at Medicine Tail Coulee Ford. Early one morning last June, I saw a small group of Indian ponies come down to the opposite bank for water....
Muskogee, Oklahoma
The historic city celebrates its music, history and Old Glory. Anyone of age in 1969 when Merle Haggard released his megahit song “Okie From Muskogee” knows what a touchstone anthem it was for America’s silent majority in response to the counterculture. Most folks...
Magnet for Miners
A tour of Western Montana is rich in mining heritage, ghost towns and living history centers. Gold seekers started flooding into western Montana in 1863, setting off the first rush for riches and the establishment of the town of Bannack, which became the territorial...
Hickok’s Twist of Fate
Wild Bill’s 1870 drunken brawl with Custer’s troopers is as legendary as the man of many names he killed. On July 17, 1870, Wild Bill Hickok had one whale of a brawl in Tommy Drum’s saloon in Hays City, Kansas. What makes this fight arguably Hickok’s most...
True West July/August 2025
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