Ernest Marsh Ernest Marsh, a San Francisco native, was the star quarterback of Balboa High School’s 1975 championship team before serving in...
What History Has Taught Me
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Cavalcade of Ask The Marshall
Lessons I have learned during more than a quarter century of “Ask the Marshall." What did the expression “I’m your huckleberry” mean? Clinton...
Relive the Golden Age of Western Railroads
By the Heritage Travel Team at True West A True Westerner’s guide to America’s most historic train rides—where frontier lore, breathtaking...
The Gateway to Mount Rushmore
Visit Rapid City, the “city of presidents,” on the way to the iconic monument. Rapid City in western South Dakota is the gateway to...
Val Kilmer’s ‘Billy’
Billy himself would have approved The late Val Kilmer’s acting career delved into films of so many genres—from Top Secret to Top Gun, from...
The Way West
Western historians and novelists are the trailblazers who inspire our curiosity and passion for America’s legendary lands and people Why do...
Building your Western Library
Arizona Author and Museum Director’s Five Favorite Biographies of Arizona Women Stuart Rosebrook, executive director of Sharlot Hall Museum in...
2025 WWA Spur Awards
Best Biography: The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels by Sandra E. Bonura (University of Nebraska Press) Best Contemporary...
Heroes and Heroines of the West
New biographies by James B. Mills and Chris Enss, plus a rollicking volume of Western short stories, a history of Fort Worth, and insightful bios of...
Will Rogers, the Chili Lover
He called it the cowboys’ caviar and a bowl of blessedness. any people know that Will Rogers was a Wild West show performer, vaudevillian,...
On the New Mexico Trail of Billy the Kid
Catherine and the Kid She was known in Kansas as “The Widow McCarty” and a resident in Silver City, New Mexico, described her as “a jolly Irish...
Brushy Billy
“What people choose to believe is a fact in itself.” —Leon Metz 1948 William V. Morrison is working as an investigator for a law firm in...