The Rookie Rancher
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...
The Many Faces of Billy the Kid
Some 126 years ago, a traveling photographer snapped a picture in the remote frontier community of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, that would become one of the most famous and most valuable photographs in history. It was not well produced, and the young cowboy who posed for...
Hard and Noble Lives
Talk about six degrees of separation. Although, in a tight cattle community in Wyoming’s Hoback Basin of Sublette County, it only makes sense. The author once worked for the Pape Ranch, a third-generation ranching outfit in the area. In turn, Jensen got to know the...
From Hondo to Big Ike
Glenshannon’s spread was one of the biggest in Texas—or anywhere…. One of Glenshannon’s cowboys, an amateur geographer, once observed that it would take a man on a good horse a lot of breakfasts to circle it. Nobody ever tried. But there were those, especially...
True West January/February 2025
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