By his own account, Joe Grandee admits his first cover submission to True West was rejected. The editor told him it was historically incorrect. Since that day in 1956, Grandee has made it a point to get the details correct, and he has never looked back.
To beef up his reference material, he became a consummate collector of authentic clothing, guns, saddles and cowboy gear. Today, his collection of more than 5,000 artifacts is on permanent display at the Joe Grandee Museum of the Fro

October 2013
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- Dibs on Doc
- Son of a Gunfighter
- From Silver Screen to Gun Room
- The Lovable Liar
- Mountain Charlie
- History Mystery Solved? Hiding in Plain Sight
- Favorite Docs on Film
- Robert Taylor Westerns
- Uptop in the Spanish Peaks
- New Mexico: A History
- The Call of the Road
- Soaking Up the Truth
- October 2013 Events
- Vested Interest
- The Beef Craze
- Blood, Glory & Greed in Texas
- The Outlaws: Tales of Bad Guys Who Shaped the Wild West
- Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854
- History and Art Along the High Road
- Willcox, Arizona
- Of Grave Concern: An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery
- King of the Covers
- Extraordinary Art of the West
- What is Stuart Lake’s middle name?
- What information do you have on that old cowboy staple, coffee?
- What happened to Etta Place?
- The June issue shows Doc Holliday’s tombstone in the Linwood Cemetery in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Is that his real burial spot?
- Rough Drafts 10/13
- How common was postmortem photography in the Old West?