The Chuckwagon Cooky
They were paid $20-$30 a month and were called names like Belly-cheater, Cooky, Coosie, Beef-trust, Dog face, Dutch, Beans, Punk, Grease-pot and Whistle-berry. Being a chuckwagon cook in the Old West was a tough job. You only had certain ingredients to cook with, and...
Standing Up for Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) is the last truly important movie in the career of director John Ford. As Liberty Valance begins, the period we see in the film is roughly the same time that Ford first began making Westerns, in the second decade of the 20th...
Lawton, Oklahoma
Fort Sill is the first place that comes to mind when I think of Lawton, Oklahoma. Especially during the month of May, which is when, in 1871, a wagon train loaded with corn was attacked by Kiowa chiefs on the road between Montana’s Fort Belknap and Texas’s Fort...
Cowboy Bunkhouse
Dee Steed was born in Wyoming’s Star Valley; he knocked around Wyoming with his cowboy father, worked cows himself and spent six years on the rodeo circuit. He hit the circuit finals a few times, even broke into the top 15 cowboys, and he was willing to climb on all...
True West January/February 2025
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