When you tug at the threads of history you will find it connected to some pretty disparate events. For example: If the U…
Tag: True West Feature
The Man Who Redeemed The Hamer Name Screenwriter John Fusco makes good on his pledge to set the record straight on the takedown of Bonnie & Clyde.
The story of The Highwaymen, the new Depression-era Western from Netflix, has been a thirty-year obsession for author Jo…
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Southern Prairie and Plains Your guide to the best hotels, restaurants, and saloons in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Nebraska.
The Southern Prairie and Plains region is a historically rich crossroads where America’s greatest Western trails origina…
Death at his Elbow The moral of this story is: Don’t take a drunk dentist to make an arrest.
If you took all the alcohol out of the Wild West era, you would certainly save a forest of trees, because all of the pri…
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Northern Prairie and Plains Your guide to the best hotels, restaurants, and saloons in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Travelers to the Northern Prairie and Plains will discover the beauty of the Great Plains’ endless vistas rolling on bey…
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Great Basin and Rocky Mountains Your guide to the best hotels, restaurants, and saloons in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming.
The Great Basin and Rocky Mountains region is home to some of the West’s largest national parks, including Yellowstone, …
Betting on the Baby on the Bar Unraveling the truth behind Arizona’s most famous saloon story.
Tombstone boasts Arizona’s most famous gunfight, but Prescott can claim its most famous saloon story. It speaks of a bab…
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-…
Manipulated into His Own Death Solving the mystery behind an Apache hunter’s death overturns assumptions about Apache battlefield behavior.
On May 5, 1871, Sgt. John Mott and three others followed Apache footprints, tracking what they thought were the incautio…
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Eat, Drink and Sleep Where History Happened Historic hotels, restaurants and saloons in the American West offer travelers welcoming respite, comfort and entertainment.
On May 10, 1869, the greatest commercial and transportation innovation of America’s first century was completed—the tran…