Road to Destiny
Roads and highways, from the Appian Way to Route 66, have been romanticized and mythologized through the eras, celebrated as both feats of engineering as well as pathways for national triumph and success. The construction, operation and suspension of the first...
Lone Star Empire
This should be the seat of future empire!” Republic of Texas Vice President Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar proclaimed in 1838. Straddling the Sunbelt, nearly halfway between the Atlantic and Pacific, modern-day Austin is the symbolic capital of post-WWII America. Equally...
Shooting Back
King of the Cowboys I am writing to say how I loved the story “The Day Tom Mix Died.” Having only known parts of it, you and the Rosebrooks filled in all the gaps. Your cover image tells the tale so very well. And then your video with Bob White about the restored car...
The Day Tom Mix Died
What really happened on that lonely stretch of highway? Tom Mix had the pedal to the metal on his bright-yellow Cord Phaeton sports car as he barreled along the dirt road from Oracle Junction toward Florence, Arizona. He was in the midst of a cross-country driving...
True West January/February 2025
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