Louis L’Amour L’Amour made you feel like you were sitting around a campfire listening to a good storyteller.
I met Louis L’Amour at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City back about 1980. He was a gracious and kind man. He’d lived quite an adventurous life himself. His research on the lands he wrote about was thorough and accurate. His dialogue was very good and...
Branding The history of one of the West's most iconic symbols!
Branding of livestock dates all the way back to the Egyptians to around 2,700B.C. It spread to Europe in the Middle Ages and was introduced in today’s Southwestern United States by the Spanish and later Mexican vaqueros. The open ranges made it essential for ranchers...
The Death Of Ike Clanton Rustling his way to an early grave
After leaving Tombstone Ike moved his rustling operations to the White Mountains. As he did in Tombstone, Ike passed himself off as a successful businessman. He had a lot of money to throw around and that was good for business. Other members of the gang included Lee...
Motorized Posses, Deadly Dry-gulchers And Indian Tobacco
Who was the first sheriff to pursue outlaws in a motorized vehicle? Perry Stoneman Atlanta, Georgia Carl Hayden, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona Territory. In 1910, Oscar and Ernie Woodson—“The Beardless Boy Bandits”—decided to rob a passenger train between...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
