Across the West, cemeteries, monuments and memorials provide a poignant reminder of the West’s historic past. Across the United States...
Hallowed Ground & Honored Heroes
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Top 10 True Western Towns of 2022
Where History Happens Vigilant stewards keep the Old West alive in these Top Ten Towns. Since the Manifest Destiny doctrine was expressed in the...
More Favorite Smoke Wagons
Reading the pulp westerns one would conclude that the Colt revolver was the only pistol used in the Old West. Remington built a fine six-shooter and...
A Long-Lived Legacy
Preacher Smith’s murder couldn’t stop his words. Henry Weston Smith—better known as Preacher Smith—was the first minister in Deadwood when he...
Divinity in Deadwood
Henry Weston Smith brought the Bible to the Old West town. Henry Weston Smith was the first minister in Deadwood, arriving in May 1876. For...
Wide Open Spaces and Western Wonderlands
The summer of 2021 is a great time to travel across these Old West highways. The West is a grand place to travel, and its many highways and...
Locked and Loaded!
Pearl Hart and a posse of sharpshooting Western women shaped the West from the barroom to the courthouse.
Deadwood, South Dakota
The Black Hills boomtown celebrates the Old West every day of the year.
The Saloon Number 10 Wild Bill Hickok’s death chair
Not long ago I received a question from a True West reader asking about Wild Bill Hickok’s death chair. He wondered if the chair hanging above the...
Dead Wrong!
Nobody in our circle got this one right.
What happened to real-life saloon owner Al Swearengen, famously portrayed in HBO’s Deadwood?
What happened to real-life saloon owner Al Swearengen, famously...
Deadwood’s Lost Chinatown
A Chinese man enters a barn followed by Doc Cochran and Johnny Burns, a thug working for the infamous saloon owner, Al Swearengen. The Chinese man...