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....
Great Secrets of Our National Parks
Through blowing snow, a pair of cowboys rode across the top of a mesa, searching for stray cattle. Quaker rancher Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law Charlie Mason were not far from the family property below Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado on December 18,...
True West September/October 2025
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