For 70 years, True West magazine’s editors and contributors have been among the greatest chroniclers of the American cowboy.
True West’s founding publisher Joe Small was a Texan, and there isn’t anything more Texan than a cowboy. From our first issue in the summer of 1953, which featured an illustration of a cowboy on the cover (top left), to the present day, we have published hundreds of articles on the iconic knight of the West, the humble working cowboy—from his origin as a Spanish
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