Working cowboys and cattle drives have dominated the covers of True West for 70 years. Did True West’s founder Joe Small have a soft spot in his heart for cowboys? You bet he did and so have all the owners and editors ever since, including current executive editor and co-owner Bob Boze Bell and publisher and co-owner Ken Amorosano. From Randy Steffen’s famous first cover art painting of a cattle drive drover bucking out a rank mount to the current issue’s cover portrait of Teddy Blue Abb


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