by | Dec 5, 2022 | True West Blog
Were there any women peace officers in the Old West? Holly Dew (Ahwatukee, AZ) I haven’t run across any from the Old West and I believe if there was one, she would have been heralded in print by now. An article “Frontier Women at Arms” in the July 2005 issue...
by True West Editors and Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 30, 2022 | Features & Gunfights
Across the West, cemeteries, monuments and memorials provide a poignant reminder of the West’s historic past. Across the United States and around the world, a popular activity for centuries has been touring historic cemeteries, columbaria, monuments and...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 30, 2022 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
A rollicking chronicle of the West, plus a new Arizona Rangers history, new bios of Hopi potter Nampeyo and Apache Chiquito, and a new classic Western from Mark C. Jackson. Nearly 150 years ago, America was a nation in total flux. President Ulysses S....
by Michael Engelhard | Oct 30, 2022 | Features & Gunfights
Was he Alaska’s greatest backwoodsman and trailblazer? A Haines woman who’d known John “Jack” Dalton as a frequent guest at her girlhood home described him as “a dapper, well dressed, ladies’ man” even at 50. Others dismissed him as a scoundrel....
by Bob Boze Bell | Oct 30, 2022 | Classic Gunfights, Features & Gunfights
Billy “the Kid” Claiborne vs Buckskin Frank Leslie Tombstone Lives Up to its Claim: A Man for Breakfast Every Morning November 14, 1882 It’s 7:30 a.m. on a Tuesday, and Buckskin Frank Leslie is talking to several friends in the Oriental Saloon in...