Who was in charge of keeping Western streets clean? Breht Rader Ostrander, Ohio Most of the time, local jail inmates cou…
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Pushing His Luck Gambler Newt Boyce took on the wrong man—and paid.
Late December 1883. Gambler Newt Boyce was wreaking havoc in Caldwell, KS (photo). Boyce was on a bender and became viol…
Too Tough to Die! From Arkansas to Washington, Western towns welcome the world to their historic downtowns to immerse in and celebrate the glories of the American West.
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2018 Plan a trip and tour the most historic and welcoming Western towns in America.
Americans are lucky. When life gets tough, we have hope of finding something better, a land of redemption beyond the nex…
Where The West is Still Wild… Cave Creek's Wild West Days brings the spirit of the Old West to life in a fun-filled weekend of action!
See Cave Creek (hometown and World Headquarters of True West magazine) in all its frontier town glory at this year’s Wil…