Back at the Ranch
Buenos Aires, 1901 When Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Ethel Place arrived in Buenos Aires in late March 1901, they undoubtedly hoped to put their past behind them. But they hadn’t counted on the tenacity of the Pinkertons. The outlaw’s past would continue to...
Oregon Trail: Independence, Missouri, to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Hopeful faces turned westward more than 150 years ago as the greatest pioneer movement in history began along the Oregon Trail. Although the people who followed the trail started from many points along the Missouri River, historians place the true beginning of the...
Texas Rangers
Depending on who you believe, the Rangers in Texas began their existence in either 1823, only two years after Anglo-American colonists first settled there, or 1835 when the legislature created a body of fighting men known as the Texas Rangers. Their job was to protect...
King of Texas
In the new TNT Western movie King of Texas, rancher John Lear has an ego about as big as the newly formed Republic of Texas. He tells his three daughters they must prove their loyalty to get their inheritance—land, a mighty big prize in the 1840s. His youngest...
True West January/February 2025
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