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The Western Auction of the Year
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....
Who Shot Joseph Heywood?
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...
Crossfire
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...
Martha Summerhayes on the Crook Military Road
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
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...
Three Master Thriller Authors
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...
Rescued From Oblivion— The Forsaken Westerns
A Western TV fan stumbling upon the Forsaken Westerns Channel on YouTube might well conclude that they’d entered an alternative universe. Here, Fess...
On the Run
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...
A Faithfully Tasty Holiday
Easter was a day children looked forward to for colored eggs and bunnies and seeing their pioneer parents dressed in their finest clothes and...
The Judge and the Prizefight
Roy Bean is best known as the eccentric Texas judge. But at least once, he was a promoter, putting together a championship boxing match between...
The Bullet, Not the Ballot Box
In 1840, it wasn’t politics as usual in Bellevue, Iowa Territory. Two well-armed sides decided that the ballot box wasn’t enough to finalize who...