A culinary biography of Buffalo Bill, plus a new bio of Newton Earp, a range-war Western, a classic rediscovered and a dramatic debut Old West...
The Man, The Myth, The Meal
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What History Has Taught Me: Warner Glenn and Kelly Glenn Kimbro
Warner Glenn and Kelly Glenn Kimbro, Ranchers Warner Glenn and Kelly Glenn Kimbro are fourth- and fifth-generation cattle ranchers and second- and...
The Highest Peak
Best of the Mountain Man Movies On the eve of the release of The Revenant, inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass’s fight for life, the film...
Wyoming Cowboy Cuisine
From beef steak to bear sign donuts, the state is well-known for its bunkhouse fare. Wyoming is known as the Cowboy State, and cattle ranches dotted...
Brushy Bill, Winchesters and Whiskey Row
Did the U.S. Army find out who was selling rifles to the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians prior to the Battle of Little Big Horn? Joe Manriquez...
Mountain Men, Grizzlies and Christmas
For 70 years, stories about legendary fur trappers have been editorial mainstays, but on the cover, they’re a rare gift to readers. Since 1953, True...
The Hawken Rifle Turns 200
Just as the Colt revolver and the Winchester rifle are icons of the post-Civil War West, one gun symbolizes the era of the fur trade. ...
A Merger, Memorabilia and McMurtry
Morphy’s acquires Brian Lebel’s Auction while Vogt Auctions gavels off a writer’s collection. All Images Courtesy Morphy’s Lebel Auctions Unless...
A Little Town with a Big Agenda
Trinidad, Colorado, won’t let go of this 115-year-old gem. Nobody’s still around to remember the “glory days”—John Philip Sousa, Sitting Bull and...
The Arrested Travels of Jedediah Smith
His first trip to California featured an unexpected stop. December of 1826 should have been a time of triumph for explorer/mountain man Jedediah...
Shooting Back
The Tenacious West Thank you for a thought-provoking Western Books article, “The Tenacity of the West—and the Western,” in the November 2023 issue...
Finding Truth in All the Noise
Let’s celebrate seven decades of lively debate about our imperfect past. For the past seven decades we have been having a very lively...