It has become somewhat of a tradition at True West magazine to do a mountain man on the December cover. In the past two decades we have run at least a half dozen and they are always quite popular and invariably best sellers. That’s not to say we don’t receive a little criticism.
Last year’s cover (see the Shooting Back article, December 2020, “Daniel Boone”) got some blowback because more than a few of our readers considered the cover boy to be “too darned pretty” and not

True West December 2021