Wild West

Wild West Magazine presents the great American frontier from its beginnings to today. America’s western frontier has been a vital part of the country’s myths and reality, from the earliest exploration beyond the territory of the first colonies, to the wide expanses of the western prairies and deserts. Experience the old west and cowboys and Indians from top historical writers. Wild West brings to life the fascinating history, lore and culture of the great American frontier.

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Wild West

APACHERIA

GEORGE HEARST’S TOP 10 MINES

WEST WORDS

SEE YOU LATER…

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

EVENTS OF THE WEST

HATS OFF TO HIRT • TOM HIRT KEEPS OLD WEST HAT MAKING ALIVE—AND NOT JUST IN MOVIES

BULLOCK IN BOYHOOD

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM • TEMPLE, A SON OF SAM, WAS A FIERY TEXAS LAWYER WHOSE INSULT OF OPPOSING COUNSEL IN 1895 LED TO A GUNFIGHT WITH THE JENNINGS BROTHERS

BLACK COWBOY ARCHAEOLOGIST • GEORGE McJUNKIN MADE A DISCOVERY NEAR FOLSOM, NEW MEXICO TERRITORY, THAT PUSHED BACK THE AGE OF MAN IN NORTH AMERICA

NEVER OUT OF GAS • O.D. GASS WAS PLAGUED BY BAD LUCK BUT SELDOM SHIED FROM STARTING MINING, FARMING AND OTHER VENTURES OUT WEST

THE WESTERN ARTIST FROM WELL SOUTH OF THE BORDER • URUGUAYAN-BORN JO MORA COWBOYED, LIVED WITH THE HOPIS AND CAPTURED THE AMERICAN WEST IN PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE AND WORDS

THE TRUTH ABOUT ‘OLD TOBY’ • LEWIS AND CLARK’S SHOSHONE GUIDE KNEW OF BETTER WAYS TO CROSS THE BITTERROOTS, BUT HE WAS NOT LOST

STYLE • We explore essential new Western gear and reflect on artist Israel Holloway’s masterwork—at 16-by-10 feet, the largest watercolor in the world

HOME OF THE ALAMO • San Antonio rose from the midst of an unforgiving frontier to become if not the ‘Queen of the West’ at least a vibrant Texas city

FIGHT TO REMEMBER

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

JOHN MUIR’S ROUGHEST NIGHT • Caught in a Mount Shasta blizzard, the Scottish-born mountaineer and a companion resorted to extraordinary measures

MUIR THE DISASTER ARTIST

WHITE BUFFALO • For his 1868 actions at Beecher Island and Beaver Creek, Captain Louis Henry Carpenter of the 10th U.S. Cavalry received his nation’s highest honor

RACISM IN THE RANKS

FIRST FIGHT FOR THE 10th CAVALRY • These buffalo soldiers received their true baptism of fire in Kansas at the little remembered Battle of Prairie Dog Creek

RAISING QUESTIONS

GOOD HISTORY

THE FEARING TIME • After clashing with Spaniards, Mexicans and Americans for long decades, the Diné suffered forced removal—but the Navajos, as outsiders knew them, would return

HWÉÉLDI & THE WAY BACK

MORMON EXODUS FROM MEXICO • To evade U.S. laws against polygamy, Romneys and many others moved south of the border, only to return stateside during the Mexican Revolution

HISTORY SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE BLACK HILLS • THE FALL RIVER PIONEER MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS THE HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY AND THE LOCAL HOT SPRINGS

THE FIRST PRACTICAL CARTRIDGE REVOLVER • THE SMITH & WESSON MODEL NO. 1, WHICH FIRED SEVEN .22 SHORT RIMFIRE SLUGS, SERVED LARGELY AS A GUN OF LAST RESORT

SILVER STAR, MONTANA • DISTRICT GOLD MINES WERE PRODUCTIVE ENOUGH IN THE LATE 1860S TO MAKE THIS THE SECOND LARGEST TOWN IN MADISON COUNTY

MUST SEE, MUST READ • MATTHEW BERNSTEIN PICKS JOHN MUIR BOOKS AND CALIFORNIA FILMS

MOVIE

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