Jedediah Smith is considered one of the great Western explorers, blazing trails from Missouri to California in the 1820s. He was the first to enter...
The Lost Chronicles of Harrison Rogers
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Articles
Shooting Back
Killer Kids Oh, the troubled faces of these killer kids on the cover of the current issue of True West reflect the horror and madness of war. You...
Walk Where They Walked
In this issue of True West we are launching a new history campaign—actually more of a crusade—to Walk Where They Walked. We are going to encourage...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings "Cerveza makes you feel like you ought to feel without cerveza." Quotes “Large numbers of strangers can cooperate...
Yellowstone River
Photographer Evelyn Cameron (above with her Graflex camera) captured these images of the XIT herd swimming the Yellowstone River near Fallon,...
What History Has Taught Me with Rob Word
Rob Word, Western Filmmaker and Historian As one of the founding fathers and producer of the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s prestigious Golden...
Little Joe, Boot Hill and Doc Holliday
Are Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers really buried where the markers are placed at Tombstone’s Boothill Graveyard? James Carroll (San Antonio,...
The West is Alive
The nation’s top Western art museums provide a window into our past that inspires our present. Art of the American West from old favorites like...
Discover the Grandeur of the West
Western museums bring our past alive for today’s and tomorrow’s generations. 1. United States Marshals Museum (Fort Smith, AR) “We are...
Durango, Colorado
October’s Cowboy Gathering rounds up poets, pickers and train lovers. Durango is an active four-season town. Each year starts with winter...
Wyatt Earp at 30
Screenwriter Dan Gordon reveals the real story behind the making of the blockbuster biopic. When it comes to the events in Tombstone on October 26,...
California Dreaming
Two new books about the rise of Los Angeles and Hollywood, plus an overlooked story of slavery in Nebraska, a Western detective novel, the real and...