The Father of Montana
Granville Stuart, who died 100 years ago this October, is one of the most remarkable men in the history of the West. Born in what’s now West Virginia in 1834, Granville moved with his family to Iowa four years later. In 1852, he accompanied his father and brother,...
A Bad Bad Man
Scott Martin has been cautiously optimistic about the future of Western films: “Until this resurgence, there hasn’t been the appetite for them. But we’re talking about doing them again—and I can’t wait!” At last year’s American Film Market, he shared his belief that...
Cap Mossman: Boss of the Hashknife
Mossman’s life reads like something out of a Louis L’Amour western. The son of a Civil War hero, he was a descendant of the Scots-Irish, that adventurous, hell-for-leather breed who carved out a niche of history on the American frontier a century earlier....
Mexican Marvels
The cuisine of Mexican natives living in the frontier West did not appear on menus in most restaurants or hotels. Victorian pioneers considered it peasant food, and it took time for them to accept it. As early as 1867, some locales, mostly border states, had Mexican...
True West January/February 2025
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