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...
Mountain Men, Grizzlies and Christmas
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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...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings “He who gets close to a good tree is sheltered by good shade.” Quotes “Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written...
Gold Fever
In 1897, thousands of men and women from around the world rushed to Alaska to seek their bonanza in Yukon gold. Local Juneau photographers Lloyd...
Guns of the Young Wild West
Here’s a rundown of some of the more famous guns—and their modern replicas—from before 1873, when the Old West was young. The year...
The Reign of Terror
How the Osage murders in Oklahoma in the 1920s led to the rise of the FBI At three in the morning an explosion rocked the small Oklahoma town of...
Justice Served
Ten U.S. Marshals and Deputy U.S. Marshals who defined the legendary West All Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell and All Images Courtesy True West...