by | Aug 2, 2017 | True West Blog
There’s nothing left to show for it today, but one time the Escalante in Ash Fork, Arizona was billed as the best Harvey House west of Chicago. The name was in keeping with the Harvey tradition of naming their establishments after Spanish explorers. Silvestre...
by | Jul 27, 2017 | True West Blog
Bob Sharp, who managed the 257,000-acre Baca Float from 1937 to 1952 wrote in his Big Outfit: Ranching on the Baca Float, “The Baca Float was one of the last big outfits to run under the code of the old time ranchers, a code which respected the knowledge of the men on...
by Chuck Parsons | Jul 21, 2017 | Departments, Unsung
Few are aware of notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin’s first cousins, the Clements brothers. Of those four, the best known was Emanuel (Mannen), but one of his brothers should be lifted out of obscurity—Joseph Hardin Clements. Born on December 1, 1849, Joe was too...
by Chris Enss | Jul 17, 2017 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
The first trip I took by train was an hour-long journey from my hometown in Norborne, Missouri, to Walt Disney’s hometown in Marceline, Missouri. I was seven and the 200-square-foot depot where I purchased my ticket was a hub of activity. The station agent was a...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jul 11, 2017 | Features & Gunfights
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was a lucky man. From a hardscrabble youth that began in a log cabin in Iowa Territory, he grew up to survive the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and buffalo hunts to create a Wild West show that traveled the globe and made him the most famous...