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...
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Southern Prairie and Plains
The Southern Prairie and Plains states should be considered the gateway states to the West. From the lesser-known trails to Texas and Oklahoma from...
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Northern Prairie and Plains
The Northern Prairies and Plains of the West are awe-inspiring in their natural beauty, endless vistas, rolling hills, dense forests and long,...
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Great Basin and Rocky Mountains
When William F. Cody died in Denver, Colorado, in 1917, they say he requested to be buried high on Lookout Mountain, west of the city, so that he...
Spirit of the West
Historian Dr. Larry Len Peterson’s tenth book, American Trinity: Jefferson, Custer, and the Spirit of the West (Sweetgrass Books, $34.95), is his...
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Desert Southwest
From the Grand Canyon to the Texas Gulf Coast, from the Rio Grande River Valley to Oklahoma’s endless grasslands, the Desert Southwest Region is a...
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Pacific Coast
“Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!” William Clark wrote in his journal on November 7, 1805, viewing what he believed was the Pacific Ocean as the Corps of...
Locked And Loaded
Western history and fiction publishers have had an outstanding year across all genres and categories. With the growth in electronic and audio books,...
Lone Star Legacy
Four years after Philipp Meyer’s multi-generational Texas novel, The Son, was published, and subsequently developed by the best-selling author as a...
They Headed Them North
With communities from South Texas to Kansas celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail in 2017, The Shawnee-Arbuckle Cattle Trail...