My Account Blog
Subscribe
September 2010

60+ Years of True West Magazine

Every issue ever published now at your fingertips. Read the very first issue from 1953, all the way to our most current. A truly monumental archive!

Subscribe Now!

Features

A spin on the cavalry-to-the-rescue theme in classic Westerns. 

Saving the Wrong Guys

Ron Soodalter
You can't make this stuff up!

The Lunacy of Billy the Kid

Mark Boardman

Western Books & Movies

Dark Tower Series

Henry Cabot Beck
(Warner Home Video; $27.98)  

TCM Greatest Classic Film Collection: Westerns

Henry Cabot Beck
An interview with TV’s The Virginian: James Drury.

The Bad Boy Behind the Mystery Man

Henry Cabot Beck

Weird West

William Garwood
Roy Morris, Jr. (Simon & Schuster, $26)

Lighting Out for the Territory

Cynthia Green

More In This Issue

Billy the Kid vs. Pat Garrett

Caught With His Pants Down?

Bob Boze Bell
Yosemite National Park Ranger Julia Parker takes on a crazy notion.

One Basket at a Time

Jana Bommersbach
You never know what you’ll find in a government storage space.

Rediscovering the O.K. Corral

Mark Boardman

Buffalo, Wyoming

Meghan Saar

Waddie Mitchell

Waddie Mitchell
Filming on horseback in amazing, off-the-beaten-path destinations.

Equitrekking the American West

Darley Newman
America’s Colt Peacemaker actually started out as a Russian.

A Cowboy Classic is Created

Phil Spangenberger
From Bonham, Texas, to El Paso, Texas.

Following John Wesley Hardin Across Texas

Johnny D. Boggs
Just one of the many bounties of bread.

A Cure for Baldness?

Sherry Monahan
Hollywood has blown it way out of proportion. 

The Myth of the Single Shot Kill

Dr. Jim Kornberg

The Genesis of Jeans

G. Daniel DeWeese
For your reading pleasure...

From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol

TW Editors
William Robinson Leigh sets a record as his work nears the million-dollar mark.

“He’s No Parlor Car Artist”

Meghan Saar
And Colorado whiskey—the West is no longer just beer heaven.

Lone Star Vodka

Johnny D. Boggs
mtrimble

Whatever happened to Johnny Ringo’s guns?

Marshall Trimble

A few years back, we visited a Kansas site called “Little House on the Prairie.”

Marshall Trimble
mtrimble

What does the word “tinhorn” mean?

Marshall Trimble
mtrimble

What can you share about Judge Roy Bean?

Marshall Trimble
mtrimble

Did trail drives ever intersect?

Marshall Trimble
mtrimble

Where did the term “chuckwagon” come from?

Marshall Trimble