Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: True West

Sunday, March 20, 2016

True West

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Garbed in a fringed buckskin costume this “western” poser grasps what appears to be a percussion Sharps New Model 1863 straight-breech carbine without a patchbox. The ignition system, outmoded at the time the photograph was taken circa 1885-95, suggests that the gun most likely served as a studio prop.

– Courtesy Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 2003.111 –

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Gold on the Klondike

Gold on the Klondike - True West Magazine

On August 16th, 1896 a prospector named George Carmack, his Tagish Indian wife Kate, her brother Skookum Jim and nephew Tagish Charlie were looking for gold along Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River, when they found a bonanza…

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Glen R. Parr I've been lucky enough to have been hired as a guide on this trail that has a wild and sordid history during the rush of '98 and for several years after. There are still countless artifacts from that time littering the trailside, that winds through an...See More

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Glenn Chartrand The Canadiaqn gold rushes were different from the American gold rushes.... The NWMP controlled access & a man had to have one years worth of supplies going into the Yukon & weapons were restricted.

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Tom Horn’s Gun

Tom Horn's Gun - True West Magazine

Tom Horn was famed as a gunman. But gun ignorance did him in.

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With her standard-grade Winchester Model 1892 lever-action, repeating magazine rifle in hand, this latter-day huntress in wide-brimmed hat, middy blouse and skirt strikes a rather risqué pose for the time.

– Courtesy Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 2004.045 –