The Nude Duel that Will Not Die
August 24, 1877 A wild picnic is in progress just outside the city limits of Denver, Colorado. Notorious brothel owner Mattie Silks is among the party crowd. She is with her “kept man,” Corteze Thomson, a handsome, fleet-footed gambler. After numerous rounds of...
A Brilliant But Doomed Mission
Imagine Oklahoma Territory’s Fort Sill in 1895, almost 10 years after the surrender of Geronimo. Imagine Mexico’s Sierra Madre, where hit-and-run attacks by Apaches on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border continued to create chaos. Imagine what we would call today a...
What’s in a Name?
Everyone knows that Billy the Kid went by several names—Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, William Bonney—but who was Phoebe Anne Mozee? Who was Josiah Horner? Who was Harry Longabaugh? Or J.D. Howard? Or Charles E. Boles? All are the real names of Western legends. Phoebe...
Cowboy Capital of the World
History can sometimes seem a mishmash of facts, folklore and half-forgotten fables, held together by little more than spit and baling wire. Take Bandera, located in the picturesque Hill Country deep in the heart of central Texas, just 40 miles northwest of San...
True West March/April 2025
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