by | Nov 11, 2020 | True West Blog
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...
by | Nov 3, 2020 | Ask the Marshall, Departments
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...
by Paul Andrew Hutton | Nov 2, 2020 | Features & Gunfights
Early in the spring of 1774, a solitary figure rides westward over Kane’s Gap into Powell’s Valley, far beyond the fragile line of frontier settlements to the east. Daniel Boone, his hair plaited and clubbed up in Indian fashion, garbed in black-dyed deerskin, has...
by Henry C. Parke | Nov 2, 2020 | Western Books & Movies
The film Monte Walsh turned 50 this year. Like so many fine Westerns of its time, it was about the end of the Western era, but unlike most, it wasn’t about outlaws, like The Wild Bunch, or gunfighters, like The Shootist. It was about hardworking, honest cowboys,...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Nov 2, 2020 | Features & Gunfights
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1805, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery settled into Fort Clatsop. They would spend their final winter encampment a few short miles from the Pacific Ocean and the mouth of the Columbia River before returning east to St. Louis...