Cottonwood Canyon Ranch
The original pioneers came to the land as explorers, as dreamers—claiming a hunk of dirt to make a life. They came, as historians remind us, “not to paradise where ease awaited them, but to the most demanding of areas.” They dug for water and built corrals; they...
John Wayne’s 10 Best Westerns
Stagecoach (1939)—John Wayne plays the Ringo Kid, who escapes from prison to pursue the Plummers for murdering his father and brother. The Kid helps a stagecoach full of misfits through dangerous...
James Drury, Alias The Virginian
When Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902, he created the quintessential fictional Western hero (more than 60 years before Clint Eastwood made The Man With No Name popular) and gave birth to an American literary genre. Gary Cooper once played Wister’s hero on...
Rendezvous
Before the Oregon Trail, before the cattle drives, before Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp, fur trappers—mountain men—opened the West. In their heyday they numbered but a few hundred, yet these intrepid frontiersmen penetrated a land known only to the Indians and...
True West January/February 2025
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