by Phil Spangenberger | Dec 17, 2020 | Classic True West
What a helluva year 2020 was! While the past 12 months will be remembered in largely negative terms, there have been a handful of firearms introduced that nostalgic gun-lovers view as definitely positive. Return of the American Cimarron Firearms’ new spitting-image...
by Bob Boze Bell | Dec 16, 2020 | Classic Gunfights
Patricio Valenzuela, the hacendado (ranch owner) of the Agua Fria hacienda, eight miles east of Cucurpe in Sonora, Mexico, is alerted by his vaqueros of raiding Apaches who have butchered one of his cows and an ox at Tapacadepe. Valenzuela hits the trail with 30...
by Robert M. Utley | Dec 16, 2020 | Features & Gunfights
The Sioux Leader’s Final Flight to Freedom Sunday, June 25, 1876, was a clear, hot, sunny day in the valley of Montana’s Greasy Grass River, which the white man’s maps labeled the Little Bighorn. Six tribal circles of Lakotas and one of Northern Cheyennes, the...
by | Dec 16, 2020 | True West Blog
American Indian Names American Indian names similar to our customs of giving nicknames. Nicknames provide insight not only into the individual but also into how other people think of them. American Indian children received names that are descriptive based on some...
by | Nov 4, 2020 | True West Blog
In early February 1836, James Fannin sailed from Velasco and landed at Copano with four companies of the Georgia Battalion, moving to join a small band of Texians at Refugio. Mexican reinforcements under General Jose Urrea arrived at Matamoros, complicating the Texan...