The Fountain Murders
February 1, 1896 Albert Jennings Fountain is agitated. It’s cold and windy, and his young son is coming down with a cold. Fountain is anxious to get the eight year old home to his mother, but his discomfort has more to do with three suspicious horseback riders who...
The Two-Reel Texas Rascal
What comes first to mind when you want to talk Western history? Probably Texas. Caroline Frick guessed that, even while she was working at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., or at Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, California. So when she came to the University of...
The Navajo War of 1913
After the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, the so-called end of the Indian Wars, cultural clashes between whites and American Indians still took place. Take a 1913 incident in New Mexico. The Navajos call it the Uprising at Beautiful Mountain. Whites call it the Navajo War...
Texas Dames
In Texas, everything is bigger—even the accomplishments of the Lone Star State’s women. The collection of biographies contained in Carmen Goldthwaite’s book Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History admirably illustrates that thought. She...
True West July/August 2025
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