When historians review the year 2016 in publishing, will they discover themes in Western history and fiction that reflected the national turmoil and...
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Stuart Rosebrook
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide
“Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!,” William Clark wrote in his journal on November 7, 1805 as he viewed what he believed was the Pacific Ocean, as the...
The Magnificent Robert Vaughn, 1932-2016
Actor Robert Vaughn has died Friday, November 11th at the age of 83. Born in New York City on November 22, 1932, Vaughn enjoyed a lengthy career in...
Lighting the Fuse
On March 17, 1876, U.S. Army Col. Joseph J. Reynolds led six cavalry companies on an early morning attack against a Northern Cheyenne village on the...
The ‘Perfesser’
True West’s staff recently received news from Brian Dervin Dillon, Ph.D., that his father, Richard H. Dillon, renowned, award-winning Western...
War and Peace in the West
Peter Cozzens’s The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Alfred A. Knopf, $35) is the most comprehensive,...
Road to Destiny
Roads and highways, from the Appian Way to Route 66, have been romanticized and mythologized through the eras, celebrated as both feats of...
A Legendary Life
The mythic history of the American West is veiled in the mysterious mists of time like the fog-shrouded British legends of King Arthur, Beowulf and...
The Boundless West
Someone once said, “Shakespeare has tragedies, the rest of us just have messes.” Fortunately for President Thomas Jefferson, his vision of a...
Imagine No Cowboys
Branding the American West: Paintings and Film, 1900-1950 (University of Oklahoma Press, $39.95), edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme, is a...
Trails to Independence
The American West’s awe-inspiring vistas—the seemingly endless prairies of the Great Plains, the great wall of snowcapped granite peaks of the Rocky...
The Wind and the Darkness
In the Bible’s Book of Revelation, John the Apostle prophesizes the coming of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death. ...