George Ruffner arrived in Prescott in 1882 and in the years that followed was a cowboy, freighter, rancher and, in 1894, sheriff of Yavapai County....

The “Gun That Won the West” is a subject that many firearms and Old West aficionados love to discuss and debate. Was the so-called West-winning gun...

Hoosier-born Dan Dedrick would have been just another Old West guy—except that around 1877 or ’78, he started hanging out with Billy the Kid and the...

Before the growth of the pharmaceutical industry, folks relied on “natural” remedies, and one of the most popular was a simple lemon. Potpourri of...

Texas Tech University Press has recently published West Texas author Joyce Gibson Roach new collection of short stories The Land of Rain Shadows:...

According the experts there should not be less than five men to pull a successful train robbery. One to hold the horses and one on each side of the...

Most often, when that phrase is used to describe the Old West, we think of Texas. And while cattle were important to Texas, we find it was just one...

Can a film be a Western if the story takes place on the other side of the globe? Writer-Director Matthew Holmes makes a convincing case. “In the...

As book review editor at True West magazine, I receive hundreds of books a year from the largest publishers to the first time author. Every book has...

Deputy U.S. Marshal James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok converses with the bartender at Paddy Welch’s in Hays City, Kansas. Without warning, two 7th...

Charles Kelly was a Salt Lake City printer when he got to know cowboy artist Charlie Russell.  The friendship pushed Kelly to further investigate...

Steven Kohlhagen’s Chief of Thieves, based on 32 historical characters and 12 fictional ones, is a saga that crisscrosses the American West between...