The Aftermath of the Gunfight Behind the OK Corral?
Most of the older films about the “Gunfight Near the OK Corral” would have you believe the feud, like the movie, was over. The 1993 film Tombstone tried but played loose with the facts, especially the opening scene, the wounding of Virgil and the murder of Morgan Earp...
The Roads Less Traveled
Adventures await along the West’s byways and highways to history. As the first rays of the morning sun greet us just over the horizon as we head west on a two-lane blacktop, the anticipation of the day’s adventures and roads ahead fill our minds with curiosity,...
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
With the boom of a cannon at Fort Reno at noon on April 22, 1889, more than 50,000 settlers rushed into the former Indian Territory of Oklahoma. They came in wagons, on horseback and on foot to stake their claims to two million acres of land. The state’s present-day...
Elmer Kelton Country
A trip tracking the Texas author across the Lone Star State is sure to create memorable stories. The frontier town of Mobeetie was taking on some of the appearances of civilization, although not all the realities of it.” That’s the first description of a Texas town in...
True West March/April 2025
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