Kansas’s Santa Fe Trail
Traversing the Sunflower State from Leavenworth to Dodge City Timing, as they say, is everything and that certainly proved true for Missouri trader William Becknell. Once Mexico gained its independence from France in 1821, Mexicans immediately opened the border for...
Dreaming Nevada
Adventures await across the Silver State for the visitor who loves small towns and history. Growing up in Southern California, I spent a great deal of time traveling with my family across the Mojave Desert to Arizona to visit family in Phoenix and tour the Grand...
Trailing Them North
Follow the Western Cattle Trail from Bandera, Texas, to Miles City, Montana. All Images by Johnny D. Boggs Unless Otherwise Indicated Blame it on Babesia bigemina. That little parasitic protozoa found a home in ticks, which found a home on Texas longhorn...
1883: The Wagons West Story
Innovative filmmaker Taylor Sheridan’s new series captures the grit and the glory of the trail. When True West spoke to creator Taylor Sheridan in August of 2021, on the eve of principal photography, no one knew how 1883 would turn out, or how the public would respond...
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