Who is Rose of Cimarron?
A gunfight at the OK Hotel spurs a controversy. Rose of Cimarron was first introduced to readers in 1915 in a little red paper-covered book titled Oklahoma Outlaws. The book was prepared by a newspaperman using information supplied by Bill Tilghman, a respected lawman...
New Book Releases – Frontier Lawmen & Gold Fever Sponsored by Kensington Books
Kensington Books has some amazing new releases featuring frontier lawmen (and sometimes frontier men forced to take the law into their own hands). Each of these books also shows the impact of the California Gold Rush and “gold fever” in different ways, from increasing...
Tracking the Texas Rangers
FOLLOW THE HISTORIC TRAILS OF THE LONE STAR LAWMAN THROUGH WEST TEXAS FROM SAN ANGELO TO EL PASO. “They are having a lively time in Tom Green county,” reported the March 24, 1877 Daily Fort Worth Standard. “Six murders in three months and no arrests.” Beyond...
A Big Sky Adventure
FROM THE MAGIC CITY OF THE PLAINS TO THE LITTLE BIGHORN AND THE “GRANDEST” TRADING POST OF THE FUR TRADE, A ROAD TRIP THROUGH EASTERN MONTANA OFFERS NO SHORTAGE OF FRONTIER FUN. Billings, Montana, was little more than a boomtown in 1882, when pioneers and...
True West January/February 2025
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