Following Phil Coe’s Trail to Death
Have fun trailing the Lone Star outlaw from Texas to Kansas. Charles E. Rankin, retired editor of the University of Oklahoma Press and astute historian of key figures of the Old West, posed a question a while back when we were having lunch and discussing James Butler...
Pinedale, Wyoming
Pinedale, Wyoming The historic Green River Valley community is a great place to rendezvous like a mountain man. A visitor might wonder how any noteworthy history could’ve occurred in this remote hunting and outfitting settlement of 2,000 people in the Upper...
The Santa Fe Trail Beckoned the Mosty Brothers
Two Kansas City boys hiked the famous road west in 1874 to make their mark in the cattle trade. The Santa Fe Trail, a vital commercial route, developed international trade between the United States and Mexico, fostered commerce on the Plains, served as a military road...
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...
True West March/April 2025
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