Tombstone boasts Arizona’s most famous gunfight, but Prescott can claim its most famous saloon story. It speaks of a baby won in a gambling game...
Betting on the Baby on the Bar
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Manipulated into His Own Death
On May 5, 1871, Sgt. John Mott and three others followed Apache footprints, tracking what they thought were the incautious wanderings of an...
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Eat, Drink and Sleep Where History Happened
On May 10, 1869, the greatest commercial and transportation innovation of America’s first century was completed—the transcontinental railroad. That...
Battle-Tested in the Rockies
In 1925, Kathryn Downing-Smith, the wife of one of Patrick Gass’s grandsons, wrote a letter to her niece Pearl about Gass. She offered keen insight...
The Meticulous Rebirth of Old West Guns
No two firearms in Old West history stand out more than the Colt Single Action Army and the Winchester lever action rifle. These were the...
Bold and Lethal
When does a boy become a man? The age-old question regenerates itself when a proud, but tired, young mother places a gentle kiss on the cheek of her...
Our Gang
Meet the staff behind True West Magazine! (Pictured above) Lynda A. Sánchez, Age 6, 1951 Lynda is shown working with her father, Joe Carithers, on a...
This is Where Cole Younger Dies
Tracking the Jamesless-Younger Gang, September 21, 1876 During the two weeks since the botched bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota, the surviving...
The Shadow Catcher Endures
Everyone loves the Edward Curtis Indians,” Sioux scholar Vine Deloria Jr. famously declared in the introduction for Christopher M. Lyman’s The...
Crazy Facts You Never Knew About Custer’s Last Stand
Tragically dying on June 25, 1876, with his men at his last battle, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has lived on as an integral part of America’s...
Sitting Bull’s Dancing Horse
A strange and heartbreaking moment transpired outside Sitting Bull’s cabin in 1890, while he was being assassinated during an attempted arrest at Standing Rock Reservation…
The Real Frank James
Nobody asks, “Who is Jesse James?” Books, movies, newspapers, dime novels have all shared his story, from the days when the bank and train robbing...