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True West’s Best of the West 2004 Winners

True West’s Best of the West 2004 Winners

by | Oct 1, 2003 | Art, Guns and Culture

Celebrating our 50th anniversary, we at True West again reveal our hoarded nuggets, our favorite out-of-the-way secrets: the best brothel museum, the top country music artist, the wildest Western towns—the West’s best, bar none. We also share your picks in the...
Reading the September 2000 True West article by Glenn Shirley, titled, “A Tireless Energy & Nerves of Steel,” I was fascinated by Caroline Bonneville. Are there books about other independent women of the early West?

Reading the September 2000 True West article by Glenn Shirley, titled, “A Tireless Energy & Nerves of Steel,” I was fascinated by Caroline Bonneville. Are there books about other independent women of the early West?

by | Apr 1, 2003 | Inside History

Stace Webb Via the Internet Agnes Morley Cleveland wrote No Life for a Lady, which is about her experiences on a ranch in New Mexico. Mary Kidder Rak wrote A Cowman’s Wife, which is about 1920s ranching in Cochise County, Arizona. She was a Stanford graduate who...
Where’s the Beef?

Where’s the Beef?

by | Apr 1, 2003 | Travel & Preservation

The cowboys, longhorns and chuck wagon on the bluff two miles south of Caldwell, Kansas, aren’t making any progress. Since 1995, this trail herd has been pointed north at the same spot just east of the railroad tracks. The marker commemorating the life-size silhouette...