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Putting the Western Back in the Country

Putting the Western Back in the Country

by | Jan 3, 2005 | Art, Guns and Culture

Joni Harms can toss a 100-pound hay bale with almost the same ease she cradles her guitar. Her new hit CD might just as well be called “Let’s Put the NATURAL Back in the Country,” rather than “the Western,” as she sings. True cowgirl from hat to boot, she’s lived on a...
“Saddle Up!”

“Saddle Up!”

by | Jan 3, 2005 | Art, Guns and Culture

The American cowboy is not only a universal symbol of the American West, but he is also a symbol of the American spirit. His gear—hat, chaps, boots, spurs, saddle—are as much apart of his makeup as is his can-do attitude, a temperament that is embodied in the words...
Cowboys Who Rode Proudly

Cowboys Who Rode Proudly

by | Jan 3, 2005 | Western Books

Sure, Midland, Texas, has been practically synonymous with oil in recent years, but we must not forget that even the Permian Basin was cattle country before the petroleum era. Thanks to the legacy of the late, great J. Evetts Haley, a Western historian of the caliber...
In His Blood

In His Blood

by | Jan 3, 2005 | Western Books

Before you dismiss Thomas Eidson as some Easterner who doesn’t know a whit about the Old West, think again. Sure, Eidson is executive vice president in charge of corporate affairs at Fidelity Investments, where he works in a Boston skyscraper. Sure, before that he was...
True West’s Best of the West 2005 Winners

True West’s Best of the West 2005 Winners

by | Oct 1, 2004 | Art, Guns and Culture

Celebrating our 51st continual year of publication, True West again brings you our hoarded nuggets, our favorite out-of-the-way secrets: the best saloons, the top single action army revolver, the wildest Western towns—the West’s best, bar none. We also share your...