How common was postmortem photography in the Old West? Ted Mulligen Massapequa, New York We’re all familiar with those famous photos of dead outlaws...

Publishers dealt readers a “royal flush” of Western books in 2013—big epic fiction, cutting edge new Western history and robust biographies about...

When pioneers headed West, they had to adapt their clothing to the new unchartered environs they found themselves in. They also picked up new...

Fast-riding, fearless and skilled in frontier warfare, the earliest Texas Rangers were first a deadly band of irregulars and then hardened lawmen...

From Arkansas to Alaska, from Texas to Montana, True West Magazine for sixty years has dedicated itself to traveling along America’s byways and...

When Buffalo Bill’s Wild West offered its performance spectacle between 1883 and 1916 before audiences across the United States and Europe,  the...

Here are the winners of our "2014 Best of the West." Sit back and see if your pick made the list. Congratulations to our 2014 Best of the West...

December 23, 1880 Riding at midnight through deep snow, Sheriff-elect Pat Garrett leads a 13-man posse eastward out of Fort Sumner, New Mexico....

Westward expansion took place during the Industrial Revolution, which was also a time of great evolution in the world of firearms. The development...

In the early 1980s, Forrest Fenn, who recently enticed our readers to seek out his million-dollar treasure, bought Joseph Henry Sharp’s estate,...