On April 27, 1865, the worst maritime disaster in United States history occurred when three of four boilers on the steamship Sultana exploded and...
America’s Titanic Tragedy on the Mississippi River
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Stuart Rosebrook
True West Contributor Honored with Western Heritage Award
Author Michael Zimmer received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2015 Outstanding Western Novel Award for The Poacher’s Daughter,...
No Spin: Real West, Real History from True West’s Marshall Trimble
There is a lot of controversy rumbling through the airwaves and social media about Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News series Legends & Lies: Into the...
The End of the West
Since Owen Wister’s The Virginian was published in 1902, Western novelists have returned to the era of the transitional West, which, according to...
Get a Room! Historic Western Hotels and Saloons Recall the Golden Era of the West
While the American West inspires travelers to visit its boundless historic and natural wonders, Western historic hotels and saloons await the...
Rough Drafts 5/15
Over the decades, numerous pundits and pessimists have announced the end of the West, Western films, Western novels, Western music and Western...
Tap into History at Helldorado’s “El Gato de Cristal”
If Tombstone is the “Town to Tough to Die” than the Crystal Palace Saloon should also be also known as “El Gato De Cristal.” Like a cat with nine...
The End of the Civil War and Custer’s New Frontier
With the end of the Civil War sesquicentennial this April, publishers have kept bookstore shelves heavy with dozens of new volumes on the conflict,...
Big Day for the Duke
More than 1,600 miles from Hollywood, California, in Winterset, Iowa, is the humble home of Clyde and Mary Morrison, who welcomed their first son...
Tom Mix: Prescott’s First “Junior Bonner”
Was Steve McQueen channeling Tom Mix when he filmed Junior Bonner in Prescott in 1971? We’ll never know, but we do know this: Tom Mix was the real...
Fifty Shades of Rawhide
Romance is alive and well in Western fiction. From Bethany House’s Old West and Christian Westerns, to Harlequin’s and Kensington’s traditional...
Is the Great Emancipator also the Father of the West?
Is Abraham Lincoln, born in a log cabin on the Western frontier, the Father of the West? Our nation celebrated 150 years ago—on April 9,...