1873 - Year of the Gun 2023 is a special year for several iconic Old West guns, as well as True West magazine, and Firearms Editor Phil...
Best of the West 2023: Firearms
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Best of the West 2023: Art & Collectibles
Best of the True and Mythical West at Auctions in 2022 Collectors proved they have the dollars to keep auction houses hammering out record prices....
Western Roundup January 2023
AUCTIONS Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction & Sale Mesa, AZ, January 20-22: This dealers’ show and sale, along with an exciting, live...
Fast Draws, Red Clouds and Wild Rags
Did Chief Red Cloud have anything to do with the death of Crazy Horse? Joe Manriquez (Whittier, California) Red Cloud was among the...
What History Has Taught Me: Irene Bennett Brown
Award-winning author Irene Bennett Brown likes Kansas settings for her historical novels. Her young adult novel, Before the Lark, won a Western...
True Westerner of the Year: Candy Moulton
Wyoming's Best: Candy Moulton I first met Candy Moulton in person at the Tucson Festival of Books in March 2014. As senior editor at True...
Best of the West 2023
At 70 years old, we pause, reflect and celebrate the grand milestone. In 1953, Austin, Texas, publisher Joe A. Small launched True West...
Little by Liddil (Jesse Goes Down)
Wood Hite vs. Dick Liddil Maps & Graphics by Gus Walker. Based on the research of Dr. Sam Palmer and Dan Thrapp. December 4, 1881 James...
The Power of Pictures
The very best historical photographs from our treasured vaults define our idea of the West. In honor of our 70th year, the editors of True West have...
Shooting Photographs and Bullets
C.S. Fly’s brief career as a lawman makes a sorry tale. In 1894, C.S. “Buck” Fly decided to take on a new challenge. The famed Tombstone...
Shooting Back
TRUE WEST AT 70 The very first issue of True West magazine appeared during April 1953 when this writer was eight years old (I would turn nine three...
A Photographic Memory, or Two
We have done a feature on the most important historical photos of the Old West (see January 2018) and we have done the most iconic photos, so this...