The Nude Duel that Will Not Die
August 24, 1877 A wild picnic is in progress just outside the city limits of Denver, Colorado. The notorious brothel owner, Mattie Silks, is among the party crowd. She is with her “kept man,” Corteze Thomson, a handsome, fleet-footed gambler. After numerous rounds of...
When Whiskey Ruled The West
Whiskey’s role in shaping the West, and its rise to prominence over rum or vodka, has its roots in the early days of the United States. Its story began with early colonists who learned to distill spirits from their new agricultural bounty of corn, wheat, barley and...
Sharlot Hall’s Name is Writ Large in Arizona History
Sharlot Hall wasn’t just “a woman ahead of her time”—writer, poet, historian—she was at the center of important chapters in Arizona history. The most famous is the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, called the “crown jewel” of Northern Arizona museums. It’s an...
Homesteaders, Heroines and Hell-Raisers
“It is curious how quickly one’s animal instinct of survival comes to the fore in primitive lands,” recalled Edith Eudora Kohl in her homesteading memoir Land of the Burnt Thigh: A Lively Story of Women Homesteaders on the South Dakota Frontier. The year was 1907, and...
True West January/February 2025
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