Big Nose Kate’s Story, in Her Own Words
The old woman was in a familiar town. She and her lover had lived in Prescott, Arizona Territory, back in 1879-’80. Now, 55 years later, she lived in the Arizona Pioneers’ Home in Prescott, and she was telling her story to a college history professor. And what a...
Following Arkansas’ Trail of True Grit
Fifty years ago, a one-eyed deputy U.S. marshal for Judge Isaac Parker’s court left Fort Smith, Arkansas—with a “spitfire of a girl” named Mattie Ross and a Texas Ranger (who could sing and pick a guitar like nobody’s business but couldn’t act a lick)—on a manhunt for...
Traditions of the West
Museums are recognizing, celebrating and interpreting the traditions of the American West through exhibits that are anything but traditional as they combine art and photography with storytelling and artifacts. Whether the subject is cowboy gear or prehistoric...
The Adventures of Calamity Jane
Born in Missouri in 1856, Martha Canary came west with her family, spent part of her childhood in the Montana goldfields near Virginia City and Nevada City, came of age, most likely in Utah, following the death of both parents (her mother in Montana, her father in...
True West January/February 2025
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