by W. Michael Farmer | Sep 2, 2022 | Features & Gunfights
The federal government’s betrayal of Army Scout Chato is still a stain on American history. In 1934 Chato, well into his 80s, a shiny silver medal pinned to his vest, enjoyed good White Eye whiskey with his friends parked in a dilapidated old car up a Mescalero canyon...
by Jana Bommersbach | Sep 2, 2022 | Art, Guns and Culture, Old West Saviors
This truly was the “engine” for Albuquerque. The first thing Rabbi Isador Freed did in 1920, as he de-parted the train in a dusty New Mexico town, was drop to his knees and declare, “Albuquerque is a special paradise on earth, and we will never leave this place.” It...
by True West | Sep 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. 1883 and Yellowstone Inspiration? It would appear that Grant County’s murderous cattle baron, Tom Lyons (above), was the original...
by Henry C. Parke | Sep 2, 2022 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies
Sam Peckinpah’s Girl Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday, and… Film is the most collaborative of arts: no one makes a movie alone. So, how important might an assistant be to an auteur like Sam Peckinpah? A woman who was constantly by his side for eight movies in...
by Art T. Burton | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Muskogee, Oklahoma’s early years as a frontier outpost were violent, dangerous and unpredictable. Welcome to Muskogee, the rip-roaring and most dangerous locale west of the Mississippi River. Over the years I have read about Deadwood, Dodge City, El Paso, Las Vegas,...