Hot Air & Kind Words
The “Prince of Press Agents,” a spinmeister in a Stetson—he made “Buffalo Bill” Cody a household word around the world. But chances are the name “Arizona John” Burke is unfamiliar. Burke’s ending is both sad and shocking. He died penniless and forgotten, buried in an...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2018
Americans are lucky. When life gets tough, we have hope of finding something better, a land of redemption beyond the next horizon. That’s how we think of the West, as a place to put one brick on top of another and build a new future. In their preservation efforts, the...
James Addison Reavis
When the United States signed the Gadsden Treaty in 1854 it agreed to recognize the validity of Spanish and Mexican land grants provided they had been “located and duly recorded in the archives of Mexico.” At the time most of the land grants had been abandoned due to...
Classic Gunfights: Don’t Look Back
In office for only one day, acting Ellis County Sheriff James “Wild Bill” Hickok is making his rounds in the Kansas cowtown during the height of cattle season, with a town full of Texas cowboys looking to let off steam. Rounding the corner of Fort Street, Wild Bill...
True West January/February 2025
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