History Features
Mattie Earp Rests in Peace
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Vince Murray
I typically encourage people to preserve properties, but four years ago, when True West asked my advice on nominating the Pinal City Cemetery to preserve it as a historic site, I advised the magazine not to bother.
Guarding Custer's Guidon
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Bill Markley
They were all dead; most were stripped of clothing, weapons and gear—including flags. Lieutenant Col. George Armstrong Custer, along with five companies of the 7th Cavalry totaling about 210 men, had been wiped out by the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne along the Little Big Horn River in southeastern Montana.
“Serious Cow People”
- Published April 15, 2013
- Written by Sue Hansen
Yes, these were the cowgirls who had the gallto turn down President Teddy Roosevelt.
Doc Holliday’s Lost Colorado Years
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Gary L. Roberts
When Doc Holliday reached Colorado near the end of April 1882, he was certain that he was safe. He openly told reporters that he and the rest of Wyatt Earp’s posse would never be prosecuted because of arrangements with Arizona authorities.
He most likely would have been right had a two-bit con man named Perry Mallon not “arrested” him on a trumped up charge in Denver.
The Apache Wars in Apache Words
- Published April 15, 2013
- Written by Jeff Haozous
In January 1863, Mangas Coloradas went to Pinos Altos, New Mexico, to seek peace with the United States. Other Chiricahua Apache tribal leaders had tried to talk him out of it, but Mangas persisted.
