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True West February 2018

HISTORICALLY ACCURATE WESTERNS

Is There Such A Thing?

Features

How Tombstone Got The Right Look

John Farkis

The Absolute Best Historically Accurate Westerns

Henry C. Parke

An Enduring Everyman Hero

Meghan Saar

A Fool’s Errand

Paul Andrew Hutton

Sitting Bull’s Dancing Horse

A strange and heartbreaking moment transpired outside Sitting Bull’s cabin in 1890, while he was being assassinated during an attempted arrest at Standing Rock Reservation...

Deanne Stillman

Music to Our Eyes

Jeremy Rowe

Apache Traitor or Hero?

John Sandifer

Departments

Blood on the Earth

Johnny D. Boggs

Lewis & Clark-Inspired Whiskey

Sherry Monahan

What Was the Most Popular Weapon After the Civil War?

Marshall Trimble

Texas’s Loyal Unionist

Dan R Manning

What History Has Taught Me: Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins

Western Events for February 2018

Rhiannon Deremo

Who Succeeded “Wild Bill” Hickok as Marshal of Abilene, Kansas?

Marshall Trimble

The Mysterious Death of John Ringo

Bob Boze Bell

Blessed Booze

Meghan Saar

Did Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday’s Fathers Meet While Serving in the Mexican-American War?

Marshall Trimble

Hot Air & Kind Words

Jana Bommersbach

Did Most Old West Towns Have “No Carry” Gun Laws?

Marshall Trimble

Wild West Six-gun Goes to War

Phil Spangenberger

Top 10 True Western Towns of 2018

True West Editors and Leo W. Banks

Gunfight in the Galiuros

Mark Boardman

Did Whip Snapper Lash LaRue Make Movies?

Marshall Trimble

Western Books & Movies

The Dreaded Buscadero Sinks Costner’s Wyatt Earp

John Farkis

Building Your Western Library with Orin Vaughn

Orin Vaughn

A Ghost for the Ages

Abraham Hoffman

DVD Review: The Law And Jake Wade

Henry C. Parke

An Empirical Tejano

Dr Salomé Hernandez

What Killed Off The High Chaparral?

Henry C. Parke

Modernization of Mexico’s Army

John Langellier

The Wild West of Canvas and Nitrate

Stuart Rosebrook