Jefferson Glass’s Reshaw—The Life and Times of John Baptiste Richard (High Plains Press, $19.95) offers a fascinating look at the “middle years” of...
Mountain Man Rediscovered
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Rough Drafts 6/14
For the second year, True West staff presence at the Tucson Festival of Books was a great success. Headquartered at the Arizona Inn, Executive...
Robert J. Conley
December 29, 1940 – February 16, 2014 A great voice in Western Literature and advocate for storytelling by American Indian writers was stilled with...
June 2014 Events
A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ANIMAL ADOPTIONS Summer Spectacular Horse Sale Rapid City, SD, June 15: Trained...
Brand New Buffalo Bills
One of the first true international superstar entertainers, Buffalo Bill Cody earned worldwide notoriety for his Wild West show, which toured North...
Buffalo Bill Goosed the World’s Fair
Buffalo Bill Cody was one of a handful of civilian scouts ever awarded the Medal of Honor for courage in battle. Yet his mettle would be tested many...
A Bloody Barbed-Wire Battle
July 29, 1884 Corporal Phillip Cuney Baird of the Texas Rangers is ready to catch some fence cutters. The previous night, he led Pvts. W.A....
16 Historical Destinations That Will Make You Weep
The American West, imagined and celebrated worldwide in art and literature, film and television, is equally a land of grace and grief. Since...
Hideout Hijinks
San Francisco, 1853: As traveler John Steele strolled along a bustling thoroughfare, he suddenly found himself being crowded against a doorway and...
Troubled Tom Horn
Steve McQueen and troubled productions seemed to be synonymous. Look at any one of his classic films—The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The...
Hunting His Own Kind
Since arriving in Arizona Territory in 1881, Tom Horn had spent much of his time in the employ of the federal government, as an employee of the army...
SUGARFOOT (SEASON ONE)
When Director Michael Curtiz was shooting 1954’s The Boy from Oklahoma, he probably never imagined this easygoing vehicle for Will Rogers Jr. would...