by Jana Bommersbach | May 11, 2020 | Departments
What did people do in Dakota Territory in the late 19th century? In the part that would become North Dakota—windswept, treeless, flat-as-a-pancake, cold-as-hell—they built churches. Small, intimate, full-on-Sunday churches. The Lutherans mainly built with white...
by | May 4, 2020 | True West Blog
The post-Civil War years were boom times for cattle ranching in the West. Henry Clay “HC” Day, a New Englander from Vermont, decided to seek his fortune in the cattle business. He arrived in Wichita, Kansas in 1879 and bought a cow ranch. At the age of 35 he married...
by | May 1, 2020 | True West Blog
In response to Candy Moulton’s, fine story on Chief Joseph in the Feb-March 2020 issue of True West, a reader wanted to know why the Army didn’t let the Nez Perce go to Canada and be rid of them. Candy Moulton’s thoughts are italicized below. First, let me give you a...
by True West | Apr 22, 2020 | Features & Gunfights
During the 1820s the province of Texas was an ideal place for spreading terror. Comanche raiding parties swept down from the Great Plains to kill settlers or anyone who got in their way, and to kidnap women and children. The vastness of what is today Texas was a...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Apr 22, 2020 | Features & Gunfights
The Dallas Times Herald newsroom was abuzz that summer of 1985. Practically everyone had a copy of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. We knew or at least knew of McMurtry, the Archer City native often seen wearing his “Minor Regional Novelist” sweatshirt. Those of us...