If These Walls Could Talk by James D. Crownover is a complex fictional story with a plethora of characters set in southern New Mexico and Arizona in the late 1880s.
The hero, young Dempsy Nealy, discovers a series of his family’s secrets—including murder—when he and fellow cowhand Saint Cooper are sequestered to an abandoned ranch house during th

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