by Bob Boze Bell | Dec 29, 2017 | Classic Gunfights, Departments
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...
by | Dec 28, 2017 | True West Blog
Ike and Fin Clanton had survived the Cochise County War against Wyatt Earp and his brothers five years earlier and had moved their Cattle thieving operations to northern Arizona. Their ranch, the Cienega Amarilla, was located east of Springerville, near Escudilla...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 27, 2017 | Features & Gunfights
Driving across the endless grasslands and cultivated fields of the prairie and plains of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado to the Rocky Mountains, a traveler can let his or her imagination wander and wonder about the days gone by, when the Great Plains were home to...
by True West Editors Robert G. McCubbin | Dec 25, 2017 | Features & Gunfights
A charter subscriber to this magazine, which first hit newsstands in 1953, Robert G. McCubbin has been collecting original photographs ever since. He bought his first photograph, of “Black Jack” Ketchum, in the same year (for $50). Over the past 65 years, he has...
by | Dec 19, 2017 | True West Blog
Holbrook, Arizona, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado rivers and straddling the new Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, was soon to become one of the wildest cow towns in the West. Before the railroad arrived in1881, Holbrook was known as...