Little Joe, Boot Hill and Doc Holliday
Are Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers really buried where the markers are placed at Tombstone’s Boothill Graveyard? James Carroll (San Antonio, Texas) Boothill Graveyard became Tombstone’s final resting place in 1878 and lasted until 1884 when the new cemetery...
Wyatt Earp at 30
Screenwriter Dan Gordon reveals the real story behind the making of the blockbuster biopic. When it comes to the events in Tombstone on October 26, 1881, if any question is more open to debate than whether the Earps or the Clantons were the villains, it is the...
On the Trail to Bloody Newton
Adventure awaits the traveler on great cattle drive routes from Texas to Kansas. Among Kansas cattle towns, 1871 is probably best remembered for Wild Bill Hickok’s gunfight with Phil Coe in Abilene. But there was another violent shootout that year that’s often...
Ride ‘Em Cowboy, Wagons Ho and the Old West
While watching some old Westerns, I saw wagon bosses and/or military commanders call out “Forward ho!!” to get the group moving. Was that accurate? – Paul Gortarez (Phoenix, Arizona) Sure they did, or something similar. The military would use a formal term such...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
