This B-Westerns set features nine movies with all transfers uniformly excellent. In Lambert Hillyer’s Trigger Fingers, Johnny Mack Brown hunts down...
The Monogram Cowboy Collection, Volume 7
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Articles
The “Shoot Today, Kill Tomorrow” Gun
During the June 1874 battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle, where an estimated 700 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne warriors attacked nearly 30...
Where Cody Lives
The railroads may have built North Platte, but it was the Old West’s most renowned showman who put the Nebraska town on the map. In 1882, town...
Saving Luke Short’s Hotel
Kathleen Holt would like to say that she skateboarded in front of the 1886 hotel, as she was growing up in Cimarron, Kansas, some 50 years ago, and...
Mountain Man Rediscovered
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...
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...