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Battle-Tested in the Rockies

Battle-Tested in the Rockies

by | Nov 6, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

In 1925, Kathryn Downing-Smith, the wife of one of Patrick Gass’s grandsons, wrote a letter to her niece Pearl about Gass. She offered keen insight into a man who, until his dying years, had been a soldier and teller of tall tales of his time with Meriwether Lewis and...
Following the Bent Brothers

Following the Bent Brothers

by | Oct 25, 2018 | Departments, Renegade Roads

So much of the Western story begins in St. Louis, and the tale of William and Charles Bent is no exception. From a family of eleven children, the brothers joined forces in about 1826 with Ceran St. Vrain, also a resident of St. Louis. They traveled west and began...
Out of the Bloodshed

Out of the Bloodshed

by | Oct 22, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

On January 29, 1863, Sagwitch Timbimboo stepped out of his lodge in pre-dawn darkness and sub-zero cold. He stood in the Northwestern Shoshone winter camp along Beaver Creek, where it cut through bluffs lining the Bear River at the northern end of Cache Valley in what...
Our Gang

Our Gang

by | Oct 10, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

Meet the staff behind True West Magazine! (Pictured above) Lynda A. Sánchez, Age 6, 1951 Lynda is shown working with her father, Joe Carithers, on a corral near Arizona’s Tucson Mountain Park, where her father worked as superintendent. One of the last members of the...
Low Slung Guns: A Hollywood Invention?

Low Slung Guns: A Hollywood Invention?

by | Sep 19, 2018 | True West Blog

A popular misconception among some Old West re-enactors and wardrobe experts is that everyone wore their gunbelts high on their waists and that the low slung gun is an invention of Hollywood. “If one thing will ding a contender for the title of a historically accurate...