Glenda Riley and Richard Etulains’ Presidents Who Shaped the American West is a highly satisfying narrative spanning two centuries.
The study traces the impact of various administrations since 1789 through the end of Barack Obama’s second term.
Historians Riley and Etulain maintain: “Even though

True West August 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Starr of a Publicity Photo
- Tubac on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
- Horse Race at Castle Gate
- Colorado City, Arizona City, and Finally Yuma
- More than a Barkeep
- Shooting the Silhouette
- Frontier Women
- Land Grabbers
- Bisbee Queen of the Copper Camps
- The Night of Blood
- Keep it in the Family
- The Outlaw Trail
- Winged Victory
- A Bad Man Goes Down
- The Cheyenne Go On Trial
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Alden Big Man Jr.
- What were the Strongest Indian Tribes of the 19th Century?
- Western Events for August 2018
- Virginia City, Nevada: Queen of the Comstock
- Were Schoolteachers Armed during the Old West Era?
- Who Stopped the Near-Showdown Between Gunfighters “Doc” Holliday and John Ringo?
- Hell on Wheels Meals
- Trailing the Wild Bunch
- How did Slim-Hipped Westerners keep their Gunbelts in Place?
- Shoot-Out in El Paso
- A Daring Sense of Humor
- Hollywood’s Flintlock Fakery
- Custer’s Last Strand
- Why Did Hopis Capture Eagles?
- America’s Cowboys Get Their Due
- Black Hills and Gold Dust