Where the Buffalo Roam
A buffalo by any other name would still … not get the ink of Bill Cody. C.J. Jones knew that firsthand. He was a hunter and scout; he even rode with Cody after the Civil War. And both men took on the handle “Buffalo” for their shooting skills. Bill went on to a...
Not Just a Dude’s Market Anymore
A young teen, in the 1880s, heads west to Montana to try his hand at cowboying. His passion for adventure converts him to the wilds of the Bonanza State. Before long, he trades his quirt for a paintbrush and goes on to create more than 4,000 works of art. His name is...
Larry McMurtry’s Creations
“The West,” Larry McMurtry wrote in his 1968 essay “Southwestern Literature,” “has produced many good books but perhaps, as yet, no great books.” That was 17 years before the publication of Lonesome Dove, which was to win the Pulitzer Prize and, in the minds of many,...
An Outlaw’s Poet
When he was 13 years old, poet Red Shuttleworth came to a realization about the Old West. While on a school field trip in 1958 to the Jewish Cemetery in Colma, California, it hit Red that the legendary West didn’t happen a long time before. The West reached into the...
True West January/February 2025
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