True West Magazine

Features

The Rookie Rancher

Mark Boardman

Cowboy Mounted Shooting

Phil Spangenberger

Western Books & Movies

Best Reads (And They Aren’t All Westerns)

TW Editors

A Ranger War & Billy the Kid

Candy Moulton

A Girl is a Gun

Henry Cabot Beck

Seraphim Falls

Henry Cabot Beck

Rio Bravo Still Sings

Henry Cabot Beck

Storytelling in Yellowstone

Linda Wommack

Tìo Cowboy

Chuck Lewis

Wild Ride

Cynthia Green

The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska

Linda Wommack

Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger

Chuck Lewis

Whips of the West

Cynthia Green

People of the Nightland

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza

Northfield

William Garwood

Hunt Down

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza

On the Wrong Track

William Garwood

The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War

Richard H. Dillon

A People at War

Richard H. Dillon

More In This Issue

A Tragic End to a Classic Cowgirl

Jana Bommersbach

Civil War in the West

Johnny D. Boggs

Preservation: Song Of Praise

TW Editors

Silver City Shoot-Out

Bob Boze Bell

Rifle Packin’ in the Old West

Phil Spangenberger

The Beecher’s Island Boys

Johnny D. Boggs

In 1969’s Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, are the characters Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore based on real people?

Marshall Trimble

Did cowboys in the Old West really wear that much clothes, even on sunny days?

Marshall Trimble

Where is Wyatt Earp’s second “wife,” Mattie Blaylock, buried?

Marshall Trimble

What’s the difference between an Old West marshal and a sheriff?

Marshall Trimble

Why do so many Westerns show bacon and beans as the campfire meal? And how did the characters cook the beans so fast?

Marshall Trimble

Did Bat Masterson actually have to use a cane after being shot by Sgt. Melvin King in 1876, or is this just part of the legend?

Marshall Trimble

Cheyenne, Wyoming

TW Editors

Casa de Adobe

Meghan Saar

Mining Vs. Ranching

Johnny D. Boggs