The Corny Old West
“It was pretty tough in those times,” Mrs. Bell Mattison recalled about her years in Fillmore County, Nebraska, after she moved there with her family in 1868. “My mother had died, and my father had re-married. We had an awful hard time. We had corn meal one year, corn...
Marfa, Texas
Called one of the last American frontiers, Marfa got its start as an 1883 water stop for the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. This semiarid region features dry steambeds and a mountain terrain made up of the Davis, Chisos and Chinati ranges. Its...
28 Moments of Entrapment
Billy the Kid“Who remembers Billy the Kid?” Harvey Fergusson wrote in 1925. Today, everybody does, thanks to Walter Noble Burns’s book the following year, 60-odd movies and countless biographies and novels. We don’t really know where or when he was born, but the trail...
Enchantment Meets Entrapment
In 1949, in an act of profound sagacity uncommon to our normally dysfunctional state legislature, the Roadrunner was designated as the official state bird of New Mexico. Now Roadrunner is not a common creature, such as other state birds, like the puny Cactus Wren in...
True West March/April 2025
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