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.

MAN HUNTER TOBIN

Wild West

THE VINATIERIS

10 INTERESTING HISTORICAL PLACES IN WESTERN MONTANA

YELLOWSTONE AT 150

DOG DAYS AT OSCARS

WEST WORDS

SEE YOU LATER…

‘BRUTOS’

EVENTS OF THE WEST

A PEARL OF A BIOGRAPHY • AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JOHN BOESSENECKER UNCOVERS THE TRUTH ABOUT OUTLAW PEARL HEART

ON A PALE HORSE

THE MURDER THAT TRIGGERED A WAR • FOR LONG YEARS NO MONUMENT MARKED THE SPOT WHERE LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO TERRITORY, RANCHER JOHN TUNSTALL WAS AMBUSHED IN 1878

AN EARLY MOTHER OF TEXAS • JANE LONG, WHO WENT TO TEXAS IN 1820 WITH HUSBAND JAMES LONG, DESIGNED WHAT WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST ‘LONE STAR’ FLAG

THE WRECK OF BERTRAND • THE SALVAGED CARGO OF THIS STEAMBOAT, WHICH SANK ON THE MISSOURI RIVER IN 1865, PROVIDES VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO FRONTIER COMMERCE

A WESTERN GEM DOWN SOUTH • THE BOOTH MUSEUM IN CARTERSVILLE, GA., SHOWCASES WORKS DEPICTING COWBOYS, INDIANS AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER

THE DAY THE CANDLE BLEW OUT • IN 1832 THOMAS SARPY, A FUR TRADER MARRIED TO AN OGLALA LAKOTA, MET AN UNFORTUNATE, UNTIMELY AND VIOLENT END IN THE DAKOTAS

VIC AT THE LITTLE BIGHORN • George Armstrong Custer brought two horses on his 1876 Indian campaign and chose to ride into battle the Thoroughbred originally named Victory

DANDY ENDING

THE INDIANS WON AT THE LITTLE BIGHORN • Students of the battle have long sought reasons and scapegoats to explain Lt. Col. George Custer’s 1876 defeat, but the Army lost because it underestimated the Lakotas and Cheyennes

CUSTER, POLITICS & PREJUDICE

THE MAN IN BLACK • Colorado Territory tracker Tom Tobin may not have worn a white hat, but he answered the call to duty in 1863 and hunted down the ‘Bloody Espinosas’

THE AFTERMATH

KIT CARSON III RECALLS TOM TOBIN • In 1968 the grandson of famed frontiersmen Kit Carson and Tom Tobin shared what he’d been told about the latter’s tense 1863 hunt for the murderous Espinosas

FROM EMIGRANT TO EX-CON • After barely avoiding the notorious Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah Territory, Paxton Jacoby became a California lawman and gunfighter with an itchy trigger finger

KIOWA KEEPER OF THE FLAME • Linguist Parker McKenzie devoted his life toward preserving tribal history and culture

BEHEADING MOUNTAIN

LOVE BEYOND WORDS

A DYNAMITE DESTINATION • WASHINGTON’S DUPONT HISTORICAL MUSEUM RELATES THE HISTORY OF THE EXPLOSIVES FACTORY, THE COMPANY TOWN AND PUGET SOUND

BROOMHANDLE OF THE NEW WEST • AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY TEXAS RANGERS AND OTHERS OUT WEST DISCOVERED THE SEMIAUTOMATIC MAUSER C96

CUERVO, NEW MEXICO • BORN WHEN THE RAILROAD ARRIVED IN 1901, THIS ABANDONED VILLAGE REMAINS ON THE BEATEN TRACK—IN PLAIN VIEW OF I-40

MUST SEE, MUST READ • EDITOR GREGORY LALIRE PICKS FAVORITE WESTERN HISTORY BOOKS AND FILMS

ANADARKO, OKLAHOMA