Smoke in Our Eyes
The very first feature-length movie made in Hollywood, Cecil B. DeMille’s 1914 film The Squaw Man, was an Indian-centered Western, and D.W. Griffith was making films like The Red Man’s View five years earlier. Whether factual or fantasy, Indian Westerns have a long,...
Cavalry Headgear We’re all familiar with those cavalry uniforms worn in the western movies. The troopers weren’t issued yellow bandanas and the hats would change over the years...
In 1855 the Dragoons became Cavalry and the Hardee Hat was issue. They were black felt with a 6 1/4″ brim. The issue hats kept that style until 1883 when they adopted the tan felt. Those remained the issue until the early 1900s. We’re all familiar with those...
Where the West Comes Alive
The West is still where Americans go to find a new life, and the risks can be huge. The woman who cashes out her retirement to rebuild a ramshackle mercantile in a lost mountain town is taking a chance. So is the bespectacled gent from that strange land east of the...
Eyewitness to History
Christian Barthelmess was a teenager when he arrived in the United States from Bavaria in 1876. The 1870s was a decade of major immigration to America from Germany and Central Europe, and thousands migrated into the ghettos of the nation’s burgeoning industrial...
True West January/February 2025
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