“¡No Tire en la Casa!”
May 10, 1871 Tracking a party of rough hombres, Alameda County Sheriff Harry Morse and San Jose Deputy Theodore “Sam” Winchell approach a ranch house in California’s Saucelito Valley, near St. Mary’s Peak. Reining up outside a rock corral, they dismount and ask a...
Jack Swilling’s Arizona Adventures: Part II
For a brief time in early 1862 Confederate troops occupied what would soon become the Territory of Arizona. This was part of a grand Confederate plan to occupy New Mexico and open a path to California that would make the South an ocean to ocean power. The so-called...
The Wretched Newspaper War
A profit-making enterprise that ended up documenting history may make one’s stomach queasy—especially when a complete picture of how that happened is explored. An album of Wounded Knee photographs was both shocking in its hammer price ($22,000 at Cowan’s Auctions, on...
Pancho Villa Pt. III: The Fall of Pancho Villa
At one time Pancho Villa got an American film company from Hollywood to make a war movie from one of his battles. He even offered to attack at a time of day when the light was best for the cameras. A movie, called, The Life of General Villa, was made but failed at...
True West January/February 2025
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