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

THE ‘REAL’ LAS VEGAS

10 INTERESTING EARP/HOLLIDAY/O.K. CORRAL WESTERN FILMS

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EVENTS OF THE WEST

ZEROING IN ON SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO • WELL-TRAVELED HISTORIAN DAVID THOMAS WRITES ABOUT BILLY THE KID, PAT GARRETT AND OTHER MESILLA VALLEY CHARACTERS

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PORTRAIT OF A PATHFINDER

SENATOR SHOOTS SUSPECT BY THE SEASHORE • A SHOOTOUT IN THE SUMMER RESORT TOWN OF SEASIDE, OREGON, LEFT THREE DEAD BUT GAVE A STATE SENATOR INVOLVED A POLITICAL BOOST

THE BOY THE INDIANS COULD NOT KILL • A CHEYENNE RAID IN 1869 KANSAS DEVASTATED THE ALDERDICE FAMILY, BUT 4-YEAR-OLD WILLIS SURVIVED HIS MULTIPLE WOUNDS

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CORUNDUM KING • MONTANA RANCHER HARRIS KIRK UNEARTHED THE VALUABLE MINERAL ON HIS LAND AND PLUNGED INTO MINING—TO HIS OWN DETRIMENT

A FLORIDA MUSEUM LOOKS WEST • THE JAMES MUSEUM OF WESTERN & WILDLIFE ART BRINGS THE OLD AND NEW WEST TO ST. PETERSBURG

INDIANS ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL • AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN TRIBES LIVED ALONG THE ROUTE, WITNESSES TO AN EVER INCREASING NUMBER OF PASSING WAGONS

STYLE • Witness the living legacy of the Old West in Carol Walker’s equine photos, enjoy the vaquero art of Sean Michael Chavez and rest a spell in Jackson, Wyo.

REVISITING THE SANTA FE TRAIL • Two hundred years have passed since William Becknell led the first successful American trading party from Missouri to then Nuevo México

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SANTA FE TRAIL HIGHLIGHTS

2021 SANTA FE TRAIL EVENTS

TRACKING THE ‘WHITE APACHE’ • Zebina Streeter enlisted with the Union in the Civil War, fought with Juáristas in Mexico, raided with Apaches and helped the U.S. Army pursue Geronimo

PICTURING QUANAH PARKER • We present a pictorial study of the Comanche chief who was photographed more than any other American Indian

‘WORSE THAN THE HOSTILE COMANCHES’ • So said one U.S. cavalryman of the roving gangs of desperadoes who overran Reconstruction–era Texas

EARP FELLOW SOPHISTICATES • Wyatt and brothers had Western connections galore in California and elsewhere after their Tombstone days

REINVENTED IN TEXAS • French revolutionary, artist and frontier physician Adolphe Gouhenant failed to realize a socialist utopia but made a name for himself in Fort Worth and Dallas

A DON’T-MISS STOP ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL • THE MAHAFFIE STAGECOACH STOP & FARM, IN OLATHE, KAN., RECALLS 19th-CENTURY TRAVEL AND COMMERCE

THE PEERLESS SMOKELESS WINCHESTER • THE MODEL 1894 WAS FAVORED BY 19th-CENTURY LAWMEN AND OUTLAWS AND HAS SINCE REMAINED A FAVORITE OF HUNTERS

MINERAL PARK, ARIZONA • COPPER, MOLYBDENUM AND SILVER HAS DRAWN MODERN MINERS, BUT TURQUOISE HAS ATTRACTED INTEREST FOR MILLENNIA

MUST SEE, MUST READ • JOHNNY D. BOGGS PICKS BOOKS & FILMS ABOUT WESTERN JOURNALISTS

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