The Evolution of Western Wear
A city kid visiting the West eyes a cowboy up and down, then asks him, “Mister, why do you wear a big hat?” “My hat protects my head from the sun, the rain, the wind and the cold,” the cowboy replies. The kid considers that for a moment, then asks, “Why do you wear ...
“Green” Ranching
Today, Sid Goodloe has a lush vista from his two-story ranch house. He can see for miles, looking at low hills and pine trees and thick grassland (to say nothing of the 10,000-foot mountains in the background), but that’s sure not what greeted him when he found this...
American West: Then & Now
Chances are you’ve never heard of Mrs. Nettie M. Dickson of Arrow Rock, Missouri. You may not have heard about Arrow Rock, for that matter. It’s high time you did. For Nettie—once described as a “gracious lady of the old school”—was a pioneer in preserving history in...
10 Ways to Get Your Kids Hooked on History
The video about Anne Frank was over— part of a special exhibit at Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, New Mexico—when my son told me, “Those Nazis were really mean.” I agreed. “Are they going to come to New Mexico?” “No,” I told him. “But the next time you talk to...
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
