True West Magazine - May 2020

In this issue

The Real Texas Rangers: Armed and Dangerous
Lonesome Dove: The Greatest Western at 35
Too Brave To Die: A Tale of Courage From the Texas Frontier

PLUS:
An Arizona Ranger’s Final Gun Battle
The Last Violent Days of Handsome Jack
When Cowboys Ordered Oysters
Go West and Enjoy Our Favorite Old West Hotels & Saloons

The Real Texas Rangers Armed AND Dangerous

Nearly two centuries ago, Texas founding father Stephen F. Austin unofficially created the Texas Rangers to protect his fledgling colonists farming and ranching near the colony’s capital of Velasco, along the Brazos River near the Gulf Coast.

1 min

La Frontiera

FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF TEXAS TO THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, THE TEXAS RANGERS WERE THE MOST RESPECTED—AND FEARED— LAW ENFORCERS IN LONE STAR STATE HISTORY.

2 mins

Lonesome Dove

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER LARRY MCMURTRY’S VISIONARY NOVEL WAS PUBLISHED, IT STILL INSPIRES OUR LOVE OF OLD WEST HISTORY.

7 mins

TOO BRAVE TO DIE

THE HEROIC TALE OF THE DAWSON BRIGADE AND HENRY GONZALVO WOODS’S REMARKABLE SURVIVAL AT THE SEPTEMBER 1842 DAWSON MASSACRE

6 mins

“... Not a Single Notch!”

Captain Neal was the calmest Ranger of ’em all. Outlaws never doubted that he’d kill if necessary—he just never let it get necessary.

6 mins

North to the Gold Country

Follow the 1898 Klondike and Alaska miners’ overland route from Sacramento to Seattle.

5 mins

Cowboy Cuisine

In the cow towns at the end of the trail, cowboys left the beans and biscuits in camp and dined like city slickers.

2 mins

Eat! Drink! Sleep!

Western historic hotels and saloons offer guests a chance to experience the Old West with all the conveniences of the modern day.

10+ mins

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True West Magazine Description:

TRUE WEST captures the history of the American frontier through authentic and provocative literary nonfiction and heritage travel narratives that keep the spirit of the West alive.