A Man That Won’t Bend
Being an outlaw is no way to win a popularity contest. Royal Wade Kimes was with buddy Garth Brooks and his dad. Ray Brooks pointed toward Kimes: “You know who that is?” “Well, sure, Dad,” replied Garth. “That’s Wade.” “No, that’s a Kimes,” said the elder Brooks. “And...
A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque
Like two horses harnessed together, the West of change and the West of complexity alternatively gallop and prance, slip and stumble,” writes Richard Etulain in Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West. Professor emeritus of history at the University of New...
Ten Events that Shaped the West
The men and women of the Old West are among the most cherished figures in Americana—the symbols of the making of a country and of hard work, honest determination, elemental existence, rugged independence and self-reliance. The frontier provided a place where a man or...
Ten Events that Shaped the West
The men and women of the Old West are among the most cherished figures in Americana—the symbols of the making of a country and of hard work, honest determination, elemental existence, rugged independence and self-reliance. The frontier provided a place where a man or...
True West January/February 2025
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