Kit Carson
Life on the Santa Fe Trail

Life on the Santa Fe Trail

It wasn’t only the Indians who made life precarious for the travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. The country was literally crawling with rattlesnakes,...

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The Seekers

The Seekers

It has become somewhat of a tradition at True West magazine to do a mountain man on the December cover. In the past two decades we have run at least...

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Ewing Young

Ewing Young

When the free trappers banded together for self-preservation, they usually elected a partisan or captain to act as leader. He was usually a man with...

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