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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...
Get Western!
I remember seeing my Wyoming-raised father quietly touching his hand to the brim of his cowboy hat, or tipping it in a polite gesture when meeting a man or woman in our travels. I always thought this was such a gentlemanly way of saying hello, and I enjoyed seeing...
Edgar Rice Burroughs Hunted the Apache Kid
Dateline: Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, Saturday, May 23, 1896. Edgar Rice Burroughs, age 20, arrived here today to begin a harrowing ten-month tour of duty with the 7th U.S. Cavalry. A graduate of Michigan Military Academy, Burroughs had recently failed the entrance...
Greenbacks
The question came up a while back from a reader wanting to know when paper money started being used by the common man instead of gold and silver coin in the Old West. Actually, paper money has been around since the 1600s. During the time of the Revolutionary War the...
True West January/February 2025
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