Julian Street
The heyday of Cripple Creek began around 1890 when a cowboy named Bob Womack found gold. For years he’d been telling anybody who’d listen the narrow cattle-crippling creek that ran through his pasture had a fortune in gold. Eventually he did find gold but things...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2017
The West has always been a place for Americans who dream. About a second chance, about riches, about a free and productive life on fertile land with clear streams. All the great Western towns we profile here were settled by such folks and, with their ancestors and...
True West’s Best of the West 2017: Heritage Travel
Millions of miles of interstates, highways, roads and dirt tracks crisscross the mountains, valleys, deserts and plains of the Western United States. Amtrak still delivers passengers across the West, and dozens of heritage railroads have preserved and restored...
What is a Cowboy?
What is a cowboy? Billy Murphy Las Cruces, New Mexico A cowboy is generally considered to be someone who tends cattle herds on North American ranches—usually from horseback. Historically, cowboys were regarded as independent, self-reliant, resourceful, proud, fearless...
True West March/April 2025
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