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The Bombing of Naco

The Bombing of Naco

by | Oct 7, 2016 | True West Blog

Few people realize it but the world’s first aerial combat took place near the Arizona-Mexican border. During frequent revolutions in Mexico during the early 1900’s American barnstorming pilots hired out to fight for one side or another. Despite the fact that it was a...
The Unbroken Peace Treaty

The Unbroken Peace Treaty

by | Oct 4, 2016 | Features & Gunfights

The young warriors of the Penateka Comanche tribe, several hundreds of them, lined up on one side of their camping ground along the San Saba River in Texas, opposite the women and children on the other. In the center of this array, the three head chiefs, Buffalo Hump,...
Riding with the Master

Riding with the Master

by | Sep 5, 2016 | Features & Gunfights

“The soldier, the cowboy and the rancher, the Indian, the horses and the cattle of the plains will live in his pictures and bronzes, I verily believe, for all time.” President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1907 analysis of artist Frederic Remington’s legacy has been...
Go West!

Go West!

by | Aug 3, 2016 | Features & Gunfights

Museums across the West continue to embrace Old West stories with exhibits on John C. Fremont, Liver Eatin’ Johnston, cattle trails and the Buffalo soldiers, but as they reach out to newer audiences, they are expanding their storylines. In our “Top Ten Museums of...