It took more than just the ability to shoot fast and straight to make a real gunfighter. Anyone who practiced long and often enough could learn to draw and fire with unerring accuracy at an inanimate object or animal. But it took a special kind of coolness to shoot straight and true at another human being who was trying to shoot you at the same time. Combine that with making split-second decisi

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows