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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...
Kansas’s Santa Fe Trail

Kansas’s Santa Fe Trail

by | Feb 26, 2022 | Features & Gunfights

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

Trailing Them North

by | Feb 25, 2022 | Departments, Renegade Roads

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...