Why did the three “Outlaw Cowboys” from your May 2012 issue tuck one pant leg into their boots?
Why did the three “Outlaw Cowboys” from your May 2012 issue tuck one pant leg into their boots? David JasonBaker City, Oregon No one knows why these particular fellows chose to pose in this way, but if you ask a cowboy, he’ll probably tell you the tucking was a...
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...
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
