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...
Queen of the Wild Bunch
According to one of the many legends of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Etta Place in South America, two men and one woman at the table pulled their chairs into the limited shade offered by the thin limbs of casadensis trees. The isolated mountain village of San...
Ask the Marshall
Did Jim Bowie have his famous knife at the Alamo? Thomas Yunker Englewood, Colorado I don’t think the storied knife-duelist would have gone to war without his trusty knife. Most, if not all, of the personal items left behind by the Alamo defenders were picked up by...
True West March/April 2025
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