Branding Cattle: The XXX
The rangeland of Arizona had pretty strict ideas when it came to stealing livestock yet it can’t be denied that a lot of cow outfits got their start with a running iron and a long rope. Old timers like to tell of a young cowboy who settled on the fringe of a...
Arizona’s Cowboys and Cattle
The Spanish and Mexicans were ranching in Southern Arizona centuries before intrepid Pete Kitchen, and wife, Rosa, herded Mexican cattle four miles north of the border to present-day Nogales in 1862. They set down roots and defied marauding Apaches and outlaws with...
What route did the cattle drives take to get to Sedalia, Missouri?
What route did the cattle drives take to get to Sedalia, Missouri? Robert Tignor Independence, Missouri The cattle drives to Sedalia, Missouri, were some of the earliest in the Old West. Called the Sedalia, Shawnee or Texas Trail, this trade and emigrant route to...
Cattle is King
Most often, when that phrase is used to describe the Old West, we think of Texas. And while cattle were important to Texas, we find it was just one of many factors that fed that state. Not so with Wyoming, according to Cattle Barons vs. Ink Slingers: the Decline and...
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
