Has one of the most famous of lost mines been found? Will the home of a lowly javelina turn out to he the treasure cave of the Santa Ritas? The...
I Found the Planchas de la Plata!
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Features & Gunfights
Battle of Rosebud
Crook vs Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull "Heap Sioux! Heap Sioux!" June 17, 1876 General Crook is leading the Bighorn and Yellowstone...
The Pretendians
From Apache To Cree To Mohawk, here are some great pretenders that never were. In 1980, on a lunch break from our security guard gigs, I...
A Century of Tribal Disenrollment
First the Dawes Commission, Now Casino Tribes, Profit by Erasing Indian Heritage Starting in 1887, The Dawes Commission tried to...
Setting the Record Straight
Correcting a Misidentification in the C. S. Fly Photograph of the Tombstone Baseball Team As a collector I look for patterns and...
The Dancing Horse
The Fateful Friendship of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill The Showman, the Chief, and the Birth of America’s Wild West Spectacle 'Near the end...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs Ornate in...
Truth Be Know
Compiled By the editors of True West "Men will travel the world to right wrongs and punish evildoers instead of going to therapy." "Everybody in...
Relive the Golden Age of Western Railroads
By the Heritage Travel Team at True West A True Westerner’s guide to America’s most historic train rides—where frontier lore, breathtaking...
The Way West
Western historians and novelists are the trailblazers who inspire our curiosity and passion for America’s legendary lands and people Why do...
Brushy Billy
“What people choose to believe is a fact in itself.” —Leon Metz 1948 William V. Morrison is working as an investigator for a law firm in...
Martín Chávez
Forgotten Hombre of the Lincoln County War No participant of the Lincoln County War accomplished as much in his lifetime as Martín...