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On the Western Trail

On the Western Trail

by | Sep 22, 2023 | Renegade Roads, Travel & Preservation

Pack it up, round ’em up and drive north for an Old West adventure. Sherman, Texas, native S.H. Woods was 16 years old when he was “second boss—the horse rustler”—on a cattle drive in 1881. Although the drive had started along the Chisholm Trail in the Chickasaw...
Ringing the Bell

Ringing the Bell

by | Sep 21, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, Old West Saviors

For the greater good of the state, two visionary women saved a school in Nome, North Dakota.       This is a story about two North Dakota women on a shopping spree—not for school clothes, but for a school.  “We’d already looked at other schools, but...
Bill Miner: The Saga of the Grey Fox

Bill Miner: The Saga of the Grey Fox

by | Sep 5, 2023 | True West Blog

Ezra Allen Miner is a conundrum. Some say he was born in Onondaga, Michigan on December 27th, 1846, or maybe he was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Apparently, Miner didn’t like the name Ezra but he never bothered to change it legally, he just decided that henceforth...
A Land of Anomalies and Tamales

A Land of Anomalies and Tamales

by | Aug 23, 2023 | True West Blog

Arizonans like to call this place a land of anomalies and tamales because of the contrasts and contradictions that make the Grand Canyon State unique. For example, it’s not uncommon for the state to have the nation’s hottest and coldest temperatures on the...
Tombstone: A Reckoning

Tombstone: A Reckoning

by | Aug 20, 2023 | Features & Gunfights

Thirty years after the popular film’s release, it might be the most influential Western of all time.   In 1993, Walt Disney’s Hollywood Pictures green-lighted the biggest Western film the conservative motion picture company had ever produced. Unforeseen by...