I found a portrait of my great-great grandfather holding a cocked revolver, circa 1870s. Was that common? Renae Sexton Apache, Oklahoma Your...
The heyday of Cripple Creek began around 1890 when a cowboy named Bob Womack found gold. For years he’d been telling anybody who’d listen the narrow...
Travel the length of the Cowboy State and discover the history behind one of the nation’s great religious migrations.
Would Billy the Kid’s blade pass the million-dollar mark? In True West’s January 2019 issue the long-awaited Brian Lebel auction of Robert G....
In the September 2018 issue of True West, the excellent article on the James-Younger Gang’s attempt to rob the Northfield, Minnesota, bank doesn’t...
Three historians slice and dice what actually happened in one of the greatest manhunts in American history. We have decided to run all of the...
One of the most important military roads during the Apache Wars in Arizona was the General Crook Trail along the Mogollon Rim from Fort Verde to...
The “Code of the West” was born with the silver screen cowboys. It was first chronicled by Zane Grey in his 1934 novel, The Code of the West. No...
A truly realistic western does not shy away from portraying the blood-soaked violence that went part and parcel with the taming of the American...
A Western TV fan stumbling upon the Forsaken Westerns Channel on YouTube might well conclude that they’d entered an alternative universe. Here, Fess...
Ike Black was an outlaw, overshadowed by the man he rode with: Zip Wyatt. The two robbed stores and post offices throughout the Oklahoma and Indian...
Easter was a day children looked forward to for colored eggs and bunnies and seeing their pioneer parents dressed in their finest clothes and...