by Cynthia Vannoy | Mar 21, 2018 | Features & Gunfights
Owen Wister’s The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains, published in 1902, considered to be the first Western novel, is about a black-haired Wyoming cowboy, his love for a Vermont schoolteacher and his search for justice during the early days of Wyoming. The...
by | Mar 16, 2018 | True West Blog
Few folks driving on the old Ghost Town Trail northeast of Tombstone, through Gleeson, Courtland and Pearce are aware of the fact that it was quite a boom town after the decline of the silver rich city on Goose Flats. The town was named for Jimmy Pearce. He and his...
by | Mar 15, 2018 | True West Blog
It seems like my entire life has been spent living in a drought. I was born in Mesa, Arizona in 1939 where we lived on a small livestock farm. My father, a patient man, would always say, “It always rains after a dry spell.” It never rained and finally he sold...
by Chris Enss | Mar 12, 2018 | Features & Gunfights
What do San Francisco real estate, George Hearst, Mark Twain, the Civil War and the Nobel Peace Prize have in common? The answer: Nevada’s famous Comstock Lode. In July 1859, a weary traveler strode into Grass Valley, California. He had trudged more than 150 miles...
by | Feb 21, 2018 | True West Blog
The Long drives from South Texas to Kansas from the 1860s to the 1880s were roughly six hundred miles and took about six weeks. I should have taken less but there were a number of obstacles to face along the way. Grass and water or lack thereof could cause problems....