We get a kick out of those who talk about the Western myth. What myth? The frontier was as real as a sawed-off shotgun a…
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True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Desert Southwest Your guide to the best hotels, restaurants, and saloons in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
Travelers to the American Southwest will quickly discover the beauty and diversity of its geography, cultures, heritage-…
Kingsville, Texas Cattle and horses still rule at a ranch larger than Rhode Island.
No Hollywood writer could invent the life of Richard King. He was born in New York in 1824 into an Irish family so poor …
True West’s Hometown Cave Creek, Arizona, celebrates the Old West 365 days a year.
Residents of Cave Creek revere the town’s frontier beginnings and love the way it blends with the bohemian present. The …
Idaho City: Queen of the Gold Camps Step back in history and visit one of Idaho’s best-preserved 1860s mining towns.
In 1862, the Boise Basin roared to life with a red-hot case of gold fever. Miners poured in and Idaho City and other tow…
Oatman Genesis Is Oatman named for olive, or not?
Did John Moss, friend of Mohave leader Irataba, name the Oatman mine and, hence, the town after Olive Oatman? Or was the…
Cattle, Cowboys and Culture From stockyards to opera houses, drovers and divas made history from Kansas City to Amarillo.
If you’re a vegetarian, stop reading. Unless you like opera. We don’t think of cattle towns as cultural meccas, but many…
Gem City of the Plains The Old West begins and ends in Laramie, Wyoming.
No one knows what happened to Jacques La Ramée, except that he disappeared on what would become the Laramie River in abo…