All of the photographs in the hardcover book Western Portraits, The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen were shot in color, then converted to frontier-era-style sepia tone. This pre-sepia, color shot shows True West’s Firearms Editor, Phil Spangenberger, depicting a buffalo hunter with his “Big Fifty” (.50-90) Shiloh Sharps, and his Cimarron Firearms “45,” single-action revolver. Phil has worked both behind a

True West May 2020