Stagecoach – The Legend At 80
Eighty years ago, director John Ford and screenwriter Dudley Nichols combined their talents, and those of star character-actors Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine and newcomer John Wayne, and made Stagecoach, a movie that would forever alter Western film...
Death of a Cowboy, the Birth of a Legend
“The sheriff’s posse returned from the pursuit of the Earp party yesterday evening at 5 o’clock. The bronzed and weather-beaten appearance of the posse—more especially of Sheriff Behan and Under-Sheriff Woods—was ample proof of the arduous and exhausting nature of the...
High Country Adventure
Long before air conditioning, automobiles, interstates and high-speed air travel, American transcontinental railroad companies of the 19th century realized that Western tourism would become an important source of passenger service income. The Santa Fe Railway’s...
Queen of the Wild Bunch
According to one of the many legends of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Etta Place in South America, two men and one woman at the table pulled their chairs into the limited shade offered by the thin limbs of casadensis trees. The isolated mountain village of San...
True West January/February 2025
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