The Blast at Steins Pass
December 7, 1897 Two cowboys, Dave Atkins and Ed Cullen, step inside the Steins Pass train depot in southwestern New Mexico a few minutes past 6 p.m. and make small talk with Charles and Daisey St. John. Then the cowboys pull pistols and rob them. Some time before 8...
Love Song to the Plains and the Desert West
Each year Western Writers of America (WWA) adds a distinguished writer to the Western Writers Hall of Fame (HOF). With the breadth and depth of writers who created “Literature of the West for the World” to select from, the decision is based on a vote of the...
Once Upon a Time in the West
There isn’t one Old West, there are many, as different as the Spanish–flavored architecture of San Antonio is to the Victorian facades of Deadwood with locales as diverse as the hearty mountain settings of Meeker, Colorado, to the sun and sea washed streets of Old San...
Bill O’Neal
Gunfighters intrigue me because nothing is more dramatic than life and death conflict, especially when that conflict is carried out by men in big hats and boots, armed with six-shooters and Winchesters. Researching my book Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters required...
True West March/April 2025
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