Roosevelt’s Badlands
He was known as a man of action, speaking softly but carrying a big stick. He led a group of volunteers called the Rough Riders to victory and fame up Cuba’s San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. As President, he preserved over 230 million acres of land for the...
Boot Stompin’, Guitar Pickin’ and Soul Searchin’ Western Roadhouse Country Blues
From the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, to the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, Texas, to stages at festivals like the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico, Western troubadours, Bluegrass pickers, Honky-Tonk singers and...
Billy Before Burns
Before the Myth was penned, The Kid had already become a Legend in Theaters, tabloids and the American Imagination There is no question that Walter Noble Burns’s The Saga of Billy the Kid broadened William Bonney’s prominence and deepened interest in...
Buckeye’s Dream
A fitting wake for Billy the Kid Buckeye Blake Bounces Back He was angry and depressed when the town council in Fort Sumner turned him down for his proposed crypt lid for Billy the Kid’s grave. Thanks to new blood in an old town, his historic sculpture on The Wake of...
True West July/August 2025
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