Almost all of True West’s readers polled say they are fanatics of historical Western nonfiction and Investigating History, and that they keep reading us every month because of our coverage of Western icons such as Wyatt Earp. Who’s the hot icon this month in Western investigative nonfiction? None other than Gen. George Armstrong Custer, who is featured in three new books: In Shooting Arrows & Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn (University of Oklahoma Press), James

October 2013
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- Dibs on Doc
- Son of a Gunfighter
- From Silver Screen to Gun Room
- The Lovable Liar
- Mountain Charlie
- History Mystery Solved? Hiding in Plain Sight
- Favorite Docs on Film
- Robert Taylor Westerns
- Uptop in the Spanish Peaks
- New Mexico: A History
- The Call of the Road
- Soaking Up the Truth
- October 2013 Events
- Vested Interest
- The Beef Craze
- Blood, Glory & Greed in Texas
- The Outlaws: Tales of Bad Guys Who Shaped the Wild West
- Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854
- History and Art Along the High Road
- Willcox, Arizona
- Of Grave Concern: An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery
- King of the Covers
- Extraordinary Art of the West
- What is Stuart Lake’s middle name?
- What information do you have on that old cowboy staple, coffee?
- What happened to Etta Place?
- The June issue shows Doc Holliday’s tombstone in the Linwood Cemetery in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Is that his real burial spot?
- Rough Drafts 10/13
- How common was postmortem photography in the Old West?