In the January 2019 issue of True West, Pancho Villa is riding with the reins in his right hand and his reata tied on th…
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The Deadly Escape Billy the Kid vs. Olinger & Bell
Godfrey Gauss and Sam Wortley live behind the Lincoln Courthouse. Gauss lights his pipe and leaves his room, crossing th…
Billy the Tintype The facts behind the only existing image of the American outlaw weave a story of intrigue and mystery.
“He is, in all, quite a handsome looking fellow.” That was the opinion of a newspaperman fortunate enough to obtain an i…
Did Billy the Kid Serve as an Interpreter for Irish Immigrants?
Did Billy the Kid serve as an interpreter for Irish immigrants? Marcil d’Hirson Garron Newhall, California Being of Iris…
The Most Dangerous Street in America In the 1870s, Lincoln, New Mexico Territory, was the murder capital of America.
The Lincoln County War was exceptionally violent, and much of that violence occurred in the small town of Lincoln, New M…
The Real Doc Josiah Gordon Scurlock ain’t the guy made famous as Billy the Kid’s sidekick in Young Guns.
The movies done Doc Scurlock wrong. Or at least the Young Guns flicks did. The real guy wasn’t Keifer Sutherland-handsom…
A Change of Heart Outlaw Henry Brown tried to turn a new leaf…
Fall 1878. Twenty-one-year-old Henry Brown took a job as a lawman in Tascosa, TX. It’s a bit of a change. He’d just fini…
The Sole Survivor Henry Brown’s widow made a success of herself after his death.
Henry Brown is known as a pal of Billy the Kid, marshal of Caldwell, KS, and a robber killed by a lynch mob in 1884. He …
A Deadly Card Game Doc Scurlock turned to violence at an early age.
Josiah Gordon “Doc” Scurlock is best known as a compatriot of Billy the Kid during the troubles in New Mexico. But Doc w…
The Western Auction of the Year The Robert G. McCubbin Collection goes under the gavel in the most anticipated Old West collector’s event since the sale of the Billy the Kid tintype.
Would Billy the Kid’s blade pass the million-dollar mark? In True West’s January 2019 issue the long-awaited Brian Lebel…