Food Poisoning in the Old West
While watching our favorite Western movie or TV characters eat a sumptuous meal at the local boarding house, café or sitting around the old campfire, we almost never see them become ill, throw up or run to the privy within hours or a day or so after eating that rare...
Modern Cowboys
“Sometimes you wonder why they all bunch up into cities, when there’s all of this,” observes Ron Schaefer, head cowboy at Rancho de la Osa, as we look out over miles of high desert and the small twin border towns of Sasabe, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. We had raced on...
Close-Ups on the Outcasts
Although director Arthur Penn made only three Westerns, his ranking is secure as one of the genre’s greatest interpreters. Actually, Penn’s first feature film was a Western. Penn cast newcomer Paul Newman as Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun (1958), a misnomered...
Diabetes in the Old West
To the frontier doctor in the 1800s, the term “diabetes” referred to the patient who produced excessive amounts of urine. The term “diabetes” is actually derived from the Greek, meaning “one who straddles,” relating to the patient’s need for frequent urination....
True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows
Western Books & Movies
