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Dreaming Nevada

by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 26, 2022

Adventures await across the Silver State for the visitor who loves small towns and history. Growing up in Southern California, I spent a great deal...

On the True Grit Trails

by Johnny D. Boggs | Feb 25, 2022

Travel across Arkansas, Oklahoma and Colorado and discover the real and imagined locations of the iconic novel and 1969 film’s locations. All Images...

An Arizona Adventure

by Peter Corbett | Feb 25, 2022

The Earp brothers’ trail from Prescott to Tombstone is a treasure trove of historic sites. Wyatt Earp, his lawmen brothers and Doc Holliday are best...

This Land is Your Land

by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 25, 2022

Pack your bags and saddle up. Adventures await across the American West. Twenty years ago True West magazine launched its annual travel issue, and...

Leavenworth, Kansas

by Peter Corbett | Feb 25, 2022

The First City of the Sunflower State celebrates its Western heritage. Leavenworth is known as the First City of Kansas, but its importance in...

Trailing Them North

by Johnny D. Boggs | Feb 25, 2022

Follow the Western Cattle Trail from Bandera, Texas, to Miles City, Montana. All Images by Johnny D. Boggs Unless Otherwise Indicated Blame...

The Real Rooster Cogburn

by Brett Cogburn | Feb 25, 2022

Remembering my great-grandfather’s role in the creation of a classic Western fiction and film character. John Franklin Cogburn, nicknamed “Rooster”...

1883: The Wagons West Story

by Henry C. Parke | Feb 25, 2022

Innovative filmmaker Taylor Sheridan’s new series captures the grit and the glory of the trail. When True West spoke to creator Taylor Sheridan in...

Eat a Peach

by Sherry Monahan | Feb 25, 2022

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Oklahoma became one of the nation’s leaders in peach and stone fruit production. Fruit is not exactly the...