In the photo above, Max Allan Collins sits at right next to his writing partner, the late Mickey Spillane, for the Kensington series of Caleb York Westerns. Named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2017, Collins is a prolific writer across many genres. In 2018, he will release: The Bloody Spur (Caleb York Western); Killing Town; Antiques Wanted (with his wife, Barbara); and dual biography Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago (with A. Br

True West February 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- Blood on the Earth
- Lewis & Clark-Inspired Whiskey
- What Was the Most Popular Weapon After the Civil War?
- Texas’s Loyal Unionist
- What History Has Taught Me: Max Allan Collins
- Western Events for February 2018
- Who Succeeded “Wild Bill” Hickok as Marshal of Abilene, Kansas?
- The Mysterious Death of John Ringo
- Blessed Booze
- Did Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday’s Fathers Meet While Serving in the Mexican-American War?
- Hot Air & Kind Words
- Did Most Old West Towns Have “No Carry” Gun Laws?
- Wild West Six-gun Goes to War
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2018
- Gunfight in the Galiuros
- Did Whip Snapper Lash LaRue Make Movies?