First Peoples, Original View
Following in the footsteps of the early 19th-century artists, photographers began to travel the West and record the places and people they encountered. One group of Westerners that fascinated and attracted the image-makers were America’s Indigenous peoples, who...
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...
True West July/August 2025
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