The Encounter that Dooms Wild Bill
September 1865 George Ward Nichols and Gen. Thomas Church Haskell Smith, the inspector general of the District of Southwest Missouri, arrive in Springfield, Missouri. In this war-torn area, Smith confides to Nichols that in the “six months preceding not less than...
Lone Star Legacy
Four years after Philipp Meyer’s multi-generational Texas novel, The Son, was published, and subsequently developed by the best-selling author as a series for AMC television, Brooklyn author and Texas native Roger D. Hodge has done the enigmatic Meyer one better: he...
Lady Desperados
Stagecoach robber Pearl Hart is the most famous of the twenty-nine women who spent time at the Yuma Territorial Prison during the years, 1876-1909, of its existence and her story is oft told. However, there were other lady desperados also worth mentioning. Elena...
What History Has Taught Me: Ron Lesser
The poster I love the most, out of the more than 100 movie and television show posters I have created, is the one for 1973’s High Plains Drifter, which, today, is considered an iconic poster. The best advice I ever received came from the great teacher of painting,...
True West January/February 2025
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