The Call of the West People from around the world are drawn to the Western United States. Whether as passengers on a Santa Fe Super...
Best of the West: Heritage Travel
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Best of the West: Western Movies
Everybody’s West: 2024 will be remembered as a bellwether year for diversity in Western film productions and subject matter. “Compared to the 20th...
Best of the West: Western Books
The Wild, Wild West Western writers—and True West’s editors—are fighting hard to keep the genre alive. If you love to read about the...
Best of the West: Western Fare
Come and Get It! Historic Western-style restaurants, saloons and dinner shows keep the Old West alive. Across the West, from small towns to big...
Best of the West: Western Preservation
Love Them All Pick my favorite column of 2023? No way. I am supposed to write about my favorite Old West Savior of 2023. The problem is, I don’t...
Best of the West: Firearms
1894 Winchester: America’s Deer Rifle Considered one of the world’s best hunting rifles since its inception, it’s also been a favorite with cowboys...
Best of the West: Art and Collectibles
Sold! Collectors love the Old West, and Western art, firearms and collectibles remain popular coast to coast. As the 19th century turned into the...
Best of the West: True Westerner
The Man Who Loves the West: Al Harper is True West’s 2024 True Westerner of the Year “I fell in love with trains when my dad gave my brothers and me...
Best of the West 2024
Celebrating the West True West enters its eighth decade with hope and promise. When Joe Small launched True West from his office in...
Kendrick’s Northern Cowboys
Growing up in the Texas Pan-handle, I often visited a cousin who worked at the 6666 Ranch, one of the old historic outfits in Texas, so I am quite...
The Death Tent
Frank Dalton and James Cole vs Dave Smith, Will Towerly and Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Based on the research of Robert Ernst and George R. Stumpf; with...
Silver Screen Buckaroos
Films and television shows featuring real working cowboys have made America’s icon famous worldwide since 1894. In America’s first...