Relive the Golden Age of Western Railroads
By the Heritage Travel Team at True West A True Westerner’s guide to America’s most historic train rides—where frontier lore, breathtaking landscapes and iron-horse grit meet on the tracks There was a time on the frontier when the shriek of a steam...
Billy Before Burns
Before the Myth was penned, The Kid had already become a Legend in Theaters, tabloids and the American Imagination There is no question that Walter Noble Burns’s The Saga of Billy the Kid broadened William Bonney’s prominence and deepened interest in...
Buckeye’s Dream
A fitting wake for Billy the Kid Buckeye Blake Bounces Back He was angry and depressed when the town council in Fort Sumner turned him down for his proposed crypt lid for Billy the Kid’s grave. Thanks to new blood in an old town, his historic sculpture on The Wake of...
Cavalcade of Ask The Marshall
Cavalcade of Ask The Marshall Lessons I have learned during more than a quarter century of “Ask the Marshall.” What kind of poker was Wild Bill Hickok playing at the time he was shot? James Summerlin Lawrenceville, GA Nobody seems to know what particular poker...
True West September/October 2025
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