When you tug at the threads of history you will find it connected to some pretty disparate events. For example: If the U…
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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…
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…
Battle-Tested in the Rockies Mountain man Patrick Gass deserves more attention in accounts of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
In 1925, Kathryn Downing-Smith, the wife of one of Patrick Gass’s grandsons, wrote a letter to her niece Pearl about Gas…
Everything We Know About Sitting Bull’s Crucifix is Wrong Does a historical society or a biographer’s family have the authentic Sitting Bull crucifix?
One picture of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota Chief Sitting Bull wearing a crucifix is as iconic as it is enigmatic. History…
Our Gang The genesis of the True West Class of 2018.
Meet the staff behind True West Magazine! (Pictured above) Lynda A. Sánchez, Age 6, 1951 Lynda is shown working with her…
Justice Served A name, a photo and a gunfight…three elements that sparked the legend of Commodore Perry Owens.
Commodore Perry Owens. One of the most unusual names in the Old West; maybe one of the coolest. And that iconic photo of…
Low Slung Guns: A Hollywood Invention? As with the case of the buscadero rig, Hollywood sometimes captured the outfit more accurately than we thought.
A popular misconception among some Old West re-enactors and wardrobe experts is that everyone wore their gunbelts high o…
One Proud Hostile A conversation with Wes Studi, fresh off his blockbuster portrayal of Chief Yellow Hawk and marking the 25th anniversary of his role as Geronimo.
Wes Studi, fresh from the success of Hostiles, appeared on the 2018 Oscars to present a movie montage highlighting milit…