by Jana Bommersbach | Jul 2, 2007 | True Westerners
You have to wonder if it was the sexy cowboy or the opportunity to break out of the “woman’s world” that most prompted young Eloise Fox to run away from a convent school at the age of 14. But run she did, marrying the cowboy who would help her reach stardom in the...
by Mark Boardman | Jul 2, 2007 | Features & Gunfights
Doc Holliday. Sam Bass. “Bear River” Tom Smith. And countless others. They found a haven in the West. A chance to change their lives. The opportunity to reinvent themselves. A move that allowed them to leave heartache and hassles behind, with almost unlimited...
by Bob Boze Bell | Jul 2, 2007 | Inside History
March 10, 1884 After an exercise break, prisoners Frank Taggart, Mitch Lee and Kit Joy overpower two guards at the jail in Silver City, New Mexico, and procure four six-shooters, a Winchester, a double-barreled shotgun, a Bowie knife, gunbelts and about 150 rounds of...
by TW Editors | Jul 1, 2007 | Western Books
“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers,” said Steven Spielberg, the man who first revealed his instinct for a good story with 1971’s Duel. So who better to tell our readers the best reads ever than writers who have made their own transition...
by TW Editors | Jul 1, 2007 | Western Books
“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers,” said Steven Spielberg, the man who first revealed his instinct for a good story with 1971’s Duel. So who better to tell our readers the best reads ever than writers who have made their own transition...