They call him the “Last of the Silver Screen Cowboys.” They might have added he was also the only one of the famous singing cowboys who could lay claim to being a real cowboy.
Rex Allen was the last in a long line of hard-riding, straight-shooting, singing cowboy heroes who exemplified, through their music and actions that good can triumph over evil and that justice does prevail.
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True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows