TRUE WEST AT 70
The very first issue of True West magazine appeared during April 1953 when this writer was eight years old (I would turn nine three months later). Whatever I knew about the Wild West at that stage of my life was provided courtesy of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry’s TV shows.
My very first published article (on any subject) appeared in the February 1976 issue of True West. At the time it was published this writer was 31 years old (I would turn 32 five months later). That True West

True West January 2023
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
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More In This Issue
- Best of the West 2023: Heritage Travel
- Best of the West 2023: Western Wear
- Best of the West 2023: Western Preservation
- Best of the West 2023: Western Fare
- Best of the West 2023: Firearms
- Best of the West 2023: Art & Collectibles
- Western Roundup January 2023
- Fast Draws, Red Clouds and Wild Rags
- What History Has Taught Me: Irene Bennett Brown
- True Westerner of the Year: Candy Moulton
- Shooting Photographs and Bullets
- Shooting Back
- Truth Be Known
- Western Cavalry Training