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...
Remembering the Alamo
Death and Doomed Men My own fascination with the Last Stand known as the Alamo began when, as a kid, I saw Fess Parker as Davy Crockett and movies like The Last Command and John Wayne’s The Alamo. Although the Alamo is a Texas saga, its universal meaning is evidenced...
The Ballad of Don Edwards
In a fast-moving world where MTV has replaced live concerts and music is often delivered digitally off a “jukebox” known as a PC, can there still be room for a real live, old-fashioned balladeer? Absolutely—if you’re Don Edwards, a self-proclaimed minstrel of Western...
True West March/April 2025
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