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Few Old West outlaws have had so many myths written about them as Pearl Hart, the Arizona stage robber. Despite the legends, Pearl, unlike almost every notorious woman of the Old West, was a real frontier bandit.
Armed and Dangerous on the American Frontier
True West Magazine Their Courage Shaped a Nation “Resting here until day breaks and shadows fall and darkness disappears is Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches” – Epitaph on Quanah Parker’s gravestone On March 4, 1905, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade. With him in the parade of 35,000 were five other Indian leaders: Geronimo, Little Plume, American Horse, Hollow Horn Bear and Buckskin Charlie, representing the Apache, Blackfeet, Oglala, Brulé and Ute people, respectively. Despite criticism...
True West Magazine Emiliano Zapata Who’s Who Letters from the Archives When people would write in and say they knew or saw so-and-so, it captivated me. It made True West even truer, or at least produced evidence of it being true. It was kind of surreal. It would be interesting for the magazine to do a “flashback” and look at some of those old letters. Keep up the good work. —John Volz Lagrange, Kentucky You are right. When I was growing up, those letters really intrigued me. Here (at right) is a taste of a great one about a man who knew Joe Lefors, the man who arrested Tom Horn, fro...