Myth is based on what we would like to believe while Legend takes the truth and enhances its meaning across the passage of time. The West was a land...
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Man Hunters
Robert DeArment, the dean of outlaw-lawman historians, is still producing remarkable books at the age of 92. His latest, Man-Hunters of the Old West...
Domhnall Gleeson as Captain Andrew Henry in The Revenant
Actor Domhnall Gleeson is probably best known to Western fans as Captain Andrew Henry in The Revenant. He abandons a wounded Hugh Glass in the...
The Myth and Legend of the West Captured in Art
Artist Thom Ross is well known for his Western works, with efforts ranging from Tombstone to the Little Bighorn and Buffalo Bill. The Santa Fe...
The Tombstone Millionaire
One of the almost-forgotten men in the founding of Tombstone was Dick Gird. He was a respected assayer at a mine north of the area, and Gird first...
A True West How To: Tie a Cowboy Buckaroo Knot
Here's our good friend and Old West fashion expert, Larry Bitterman of The Old Frontier Clothing Company explaining how to tie a Cowboy Buckaroo...
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Most people associate cowboy and western music originating with Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter but the music predates the era of the “Singing...
Cole Younger
If I had to choose a favorite outlaw, without hesitation I’d say, “Cole Younger.” Besides being a “good man to ride the river with,” he had many...
The Legend of Elfego Baca
One of the most one-sided gun battles in the West was the one-man stand by Elfego Baca at Frisco, New Mexico on October 28th, 1884. “I’ll show the...
Belle Starr: The Bandit Queen
Sometimes an outlaw had to die before he or she gained fame. Myra Belle Shirley is a good example. She grew up in an affluent Southern family, was...
Knights in Dusty Leather
Despite the violent image of the West there were fewer fatalities in the entire history of a raucous cow town than in an average Hollywood...
A Litany of Train Robberies
Credited with pulling the first peacetime train robbery in America goes to the four, relatively unknown, Reno brothers of Indiana, John, Frank,...