I guess you could say Zebulon Pike made a grand circle tour in 1806-07, although that wasn’t his intention when he set out on a reconnaissance of...

I guess you could say Zebulon Pike made a grand circle tour in 1806-07, although that wasn’t his intention when he set out on a reconnaissance of...
Which is the more aggressive and dominant animal—a Mexican fighting bull (toro) or an American buffalo? Scotty Philip, a cattle trader well known...
The Cherokee Kid is the most famous cowboy Indian known today. His real name was Will Rogers, and he was born in 1879 on a cattle ranch in the...
Dressed in cowboy hat and boots, I’m walking across the San Antonio Missions Visitors Center parking lot with my four-year-old son when a docent...
Out of work cowhands used to ride the grub line, which is pretty much what I do for a living. ’Cause I like to eat. And a body can find a whole lot...
As any reader of True West knows, interest in the Old West is worldwide—people love reading about the Earps and Custer, Billy the Kid and Geronimo...
This is the story of a writer’s journey that turns to admiration and respect, sharing one man’s curiosity with horses and what he learned along the...
Richard Etulain is best known as a scholar for his expertise in the cultural and intellectual—and, especially, literary—history of the American...
The song “Home on the Range” is filled with both ideal and real images of the West, and the author uses each stanza to examine the truth of these...
These wryly provocative tales of southwestern Arizona range from the derring-do of yesterday’s Spanish Frontiersmen to the Happy Hour Gringos of...
Thirteen Western authors collaborated in writing this book, each contributing one chapter. In it, Noah is a green-eyed slave living on a plantation...
This is a gutsy contemporary Western about two devastated young men. Joe Willie is a cowboy broken mentally and physically after a bull riding...