by Jana Bommersbach | Feb 6, 2018 | Departments, Old West Saviors
Dreams of a “fly-on-the-wall” moment in Western history certainly include sitting with Wyatt Earp in the 1920s as he set the record straight about his life and legend, including his take on the 1881 Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory....
by John Farkis | Jan 24, 2018 | Features & Gunfights
You can’t have an authentic set without authentic costumes. But even though Tombstone would begin filming more than two months before the start of Wyatt Earp, both productions were still competing for the same wardrobes…and Kevin Costner had already usurped all of...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jan 5, 2018 | Departments, Old West Saviors
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...
by True West Editors and Leo W. Banks | Jan 3, 2018 | Departments, True Western Towns
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...
by | Jan 3, 2018 | True West Blog
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...