Curly Bill Brocius
The outlaws of Cochise County during the 1880s were a hard breed and the fact that Curly Bill was one of their leaders says something of his toughness. Billy Breakenridge described him as “fully six feet tall, with black curly hair, freckled face, and well built.”...
The Painter’s Cabin
Visiting the Maynard Dixon cabin is like walking into a Maynard Dixon painting. For the last seven years of his life, Maynard and his wife, muralist Edith Hamlin, summered and painted in the log-and-stone cabin they built in Mount Carmel, Utah, immersed in the Western...
Legends in Levis
People need heroes and if they don’t have ‘em they have to invent ‘em. The Old West didn’t have that problem because they had an abundance of the real deal. They included hardrock miners, mountain men, railroad gandy dancers, muleskinners, stagecoach drivers,...
History, Heritage and Hospitality
Saloons, pubs and hotels played a major role in shaping the West. While saloons generally weren’t the largest buildings in a town, they were the most frequented establishments. Besides being used for the obvious imbibing and sleeping, they were sites of judicial and...
True West January/February 2025
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