For 55 years, Robert M. Utley has been informing, entertaining and enlightening readers with his well-researched biographies and histories of the...
Books: Rough Drafts
Springtime is awards season for books, television and film, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum of Oklahoma City recently...
Titans of the West
For fans of Western cinema, 2018 is an anniversary year of great importance as the 80th anniversary of John Ford directing his first John Wayne film...
Road Trip!
The long American road trip across the West evokes emotions of freedom and adventure and mental images of windswept plains, awe-inspiring mountain...
The Grand Canyon State
The Grand Canyon State has been my adopted home for most of my life. When anyone asks me about touring the beautiful southwestern state, I always...
The End of the West
Since 1988, when award-winning author Richard White published his first volume of history, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and...
For the Love of the Book
"Where Words and Imagination Come to Life” is the theme of the 10th annual Tucson Festival of Books, which will be held Saturday and Sunday, March...
Man of War and Peace
A century and a half ago, Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant was fated to become the Republican nominee for president of the United States....
The Wild West of Canvas and Nitrate
Once Upon a Time…the Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, edited by Mary-Dailey Desmarais and Thomas Brent Smith (5 Continents Editions, $45),...
True West Best of the West Heritage Travel
Driving across the endless grasslands and cultivated fields of the prairie and plains of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado to the Rocky Mountains,...
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Wear
For 65 years, True West’s editors and contributors have written about the men and women across the country who work hard every day to keep the...
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Books
In 2013, I started managing and writing the “Western Books” column for True West. In those five years, I have received between 400 and 600 books a...