The Tenacious West
Thank you for a thought-provoking Western Books article, “The Tenacity of the West—and the Western,” in the November 2023 issue of True West. Like you, these thoughts have come in and out of my mind many times. I like, very much, Stuart Rosebrook’s statement, “...just when it seems the anti-Western movement would succeed, strong winds in favor of Western writers have blown Old West writing and publishing back on course.”
In the mid-1990s, one fellow,

True West December 2023
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
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- Grapevine, Texas
- Following Billy the Kid
- What History Has Taught Me: Warner Glenn and Kelly Glenn Kimbro
- Wyoming Cowboy Cuisine
- Brushy Bill, Winchesters and Whiskey Row
- The Hawken Rifle Turns 200
- A Merger, Memorabilia and McMurtry
- A Little Town with a Big Agenda
- The Arrested Travels of Jedediah Smith
- Shooting Back
- Truth Be Known
- Gold Fever