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Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson

by | Sep 1, 2022 | Features & Gunfights

The deadly and dangerous life of the man who invented Wyatt Earp. Thanks to a 1960s television show starring Gene Barry, Bat Masterson was called a “legend in his own time,” at least in the popular imagination. But the legend actually began long before that, in August...
True West Comes Clean

True West Comes Clean

by | Mar 31, 2022 | Classic True West

A look at our mistakes throughout the years. We were snookered. Duped. Fooled. Em-barrassed. Sideswiped by a “discovery” that turns out to be fake. In the 50 years of this magazine, the editors made a fair amount of mistakes. We’ve parroted popular notions that turned...
Casper, Wyoming

Casper, Wyoming

by | Mar 31, 2022 | Departments, True Western Towns

The historic trail town celebrates its Western heritage all year round.   The College National Finals Rodeo in 2021 was not Casper’s first rodeo. The central Wyoming city on the North Platte River in fact has hosted the collegiate finals for two decades in the...
Wagons Ho!

Wagons Ho!

by | Feb 26, 2022 | Features & Gunfights

True West’s historians reveal the real history behind Taylor Sheridan’s 1883.   Hollywood producers, directors and writers have often attempted to re-create the grandiosity and pageantry of an epic period in history on the silver screen and television. From...
Texas’s Quanah Parker Trail

Texas’s Quanah Parker Trail

by | Feb 26, 2022 | Features & Gunfights

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...