Zebulon Pike’s Life on the Mississippi
If William Clark and Meriwether Lewis are the Yankees and Dodgers of American West explorers, then Zebulon Montgomery Pike has to be the St. Louis Cardinals. I can’t believe I just wrote that. I hate the Yankees, and I rarely root for the post-Brooklyn Dodgers or the...
Phantom Of The Desert
“The Kid was a dark folk hero, a celebrated outlaw. He was at large in Mexico, living off the land, raiding when he felt like it. It was the Old Apache way.” —Neil Goodwin, as quoted by Paul Andrew Hutton in The Apache Wars As lawmen, historians and treasure-hunters...
A Man For All Seasons
“He was “a perfect Adonis in figure, a mass of muscle and sinew, of wonderful courage, great sagacity, and as faithful as an Irish hound.” —Captain John Bourke, Third U.S. Cavalry Captain John Bourke, a Medal of Honor recipient for “gallantry in action” during the...
Cavalry Horses Did the U.S. Cavalry have remudas like the Old West cattle drives?
I had a question the other day asking if the U.S. Cavalry had remudas like the Old West cattle drives. I’ve never come across anything referring to remudas in my Frontier Army references. I asked True West contributor, Lee Noyes and the Past Editor of the quarterly...
True West January/February 2025
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