The Long Drive The Long Drive from the Texas brasada country south of San Antonio up to Abilene was about eight hundred miles and could take as long as two months...
The Long Drive from the Texas brasada country south of San Antonio up to Abilene was about eight hundred miles and could take as long as two months. Trail drivers didn’t push the cows hard as they’d lose too much weight and the buyer paid by the pound. There are...
Cavalry Horses Did the U.S. Cavalry have remudas like the Old West cattle drives?
I had a question the other day asking if the U.S. Cavalry had remudas like the Old West cattle drives. I’ve never come across anything referring to remudas in my Frontier Army references. I asked True West contributor, Lee Noyes and the Past Editor of the quarterly...
Wear It Like a Western Star!
North American companies, from Stetson to Shiloh Sharps, make it easy for you to wear and enjoy the Old West clothes, hats, boots, firearms, leather, tack, wild rags and historic glasses worn by the movie stars on the Silver Screen. A century ago, early Western stars...
Bowlegged Cowboys, Wagon Bosses and Apaches
If all of the cowboys in True West and other publications made their livelihood by sitting in the saddle on horseback, why do I never see any photos showing bowlegged cowboys? Larry Doehling, Surprise, Nebraska I believe the “bowlegged” cowboy is more of a cartoonish...
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
