Reverend Peabody Comes to Tombstone
In Tombstone in early 1882, the Reverend Endicott Peabody, a recent arrival from Boston preached a sermon titled The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Cattle A cowboy who happened to be a well-known cattle thief took umbrage at the...
Bunkhouse Belly Cheaters
Bunkhouses served as the cowboy’s residence when he wasn’t out on roundups or driving cattle to market. His fellow cowboys became family. The cook who fed them all on the trail usually also fed them on the ranch. (Unless the cowboy worked for a smaller ranch that...
Pat Garrett’s Buffalo Hunt Adventure
Prior to his rendezvous with destiny, Pat Garrett—like many frontier vagabonds—dabbled in several occupations, including buffalo hunting. Before he shot Billy the Kid, he had already killed a fellow hunter during one of the three winters he spent on the West Texas...
Custer Cemetery Champion
“America’s most hallowed grounds” is how National Park Service Manager Chris Ziegler views the national cemeteries that hold the soldiers who fought for this nation from its earliest days. That’s why he became the champion for the Custer National Cemetery at the...
True West January/February 2025
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