After 150 years of a fictional understanding of the 1860 Battle of Pease River (the battle did not even occur there), the falsifications of...
Myth, Memory and Massacre
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All of My People Were Killed
This Sharlot Hall Museum treasure shares the first-person narrative of a Yavapai orphan taken in by his Army captors after troops killed his family...
Plains Indians Regalia & Customs
This jam-packed volume gathers together the 18th- and 19th-century observations of the styles and mannerisms of Plains Indian people that are in...
Building One Fire: Art and World View in Cherokee Life
“I never met a man I didn’t like,” Cherokee humorist Will Rogers famously said, espousing the philosophy that all are sacred in the worldview of the...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2011
Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will not only encourage federal, state and...
True West’s Best of the West 2011 Winners
Here are the winners of our "2011 Best of the West." Sit back and see if your pick made the list. BEST SUNDAY RIDE TO THE RIVER Longhorn Saloon’s...
There Will Be War!
Many “what ifs” can be found in history. Certainly this was the case with the controversial Bascom Affair that took place 150 years ago. Had the...
John Wayne’s Wild West
A two-page photo spread in this handsome volume goes a long way toward explaining this book. Pages 26 and 27 illustrate that wonderful moment in...
1972’s Junior Bonner
Four rodeo movies were released in 1972: Junior Bonner, J.W. Coop, When the Legends Die and The Honkers. (You might find four rodeo pictures in all...
Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary
When the two-disc Blu-ray edition of Dances With Wolves is released on January 11, the DVD will have missed the movie’s 20th anniversary by only a...
Red Hill
When Shane Cooper (Ryan Kwanten) signs up as the constable in the sleepy outback town of Red Hill,he misplaces his handgun on his first day—never a...
Old and New Kids of True Grit
The Western changed in 1969, and that evolutionary shift can be credited to three movies, each unique, each as good as the other two and each one a...