What’s in a Name: Old West Style
icknames among the Old West characters developed almost to an art form and just hearing them conjures up picturesque images. For example among such charming specimens of Eve’s flesh were Crazy Horse Lil, The Dancing Heifer, The Galloping Cow, The Little Lost Chicken...
The Meticulous Rebirth of Old West Guns
No two firearms in Old West history stand out more than the Colt Single Action Army and the Winchester lever action rifle. These were the quintessential tools of what our generation remembers as the guns that tamed the Wild West in movies and literature. Many firearms...
Bold and Lethal
When does a boy become a man? The age-old question regenerates itself when a proud, but tired, young mother places a gentle kiss on the cheek of her wailing newborn son and prays silently that life will treat him kindly. She envisions her baby will grow into a virile...
Our Gang
Meet the staff behind True West Magazine! (Pictured above) Lynda A. Sánchez, Age 6, 1951 Lynda is shown working with her father, Joe Carithers, on a corral near Arizona’s Tucson Mountain Park, where her father worked as superintendent. One of the last members of the...
True West January/February 2025
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