Sons of the Pioneers Spice Up Music Auction
Leonard Franklin Slye likely never would have become the actor we know as Roy Rogers had he not first found fame in a cowboy band he formed with Tim Spencer and Bob Nolan in 1933. They first called the band the Pioneer Trio. After Hugh Farr joined as a fiddler and his...
True West’s Best of the West 2010 Winners
Here are the winners of our “2010 Best of the West.” Sit back and see if your pick made the list. Best Hotel in the West Menger Hotel San Antonio’s Menger Hotel celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2009. And what a history it has seen—guests have...
Following Calamity Jane
Born in Missouri in 1856 Martha Canary came west with her family, spent part of her childhood in the Montana gold fields near Virginia City and Nevada City, and came of age in Utah following the death of her parents (her mother in Montana, her father in Utah). She...
The Original Boot Hill
In the streets of a Kansas prairie town on an evening in mid-1872, a familiar pattern unfolded-a crowd gathered, somebody fired a gun and somebody responded in kind. History is not clear on what happened. A tall black man called Tex (or Black Jack, or both) was...
True West January/February 2025
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