If you were a boy growing up watching Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s, you either wanted to be Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid after Paul Newman...
The Sundance Kid Rides Again — in New York City!
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Stuart Rosebrook
The Gilded General’s Eternal March West
Robert O’Connell’s brilliant biography, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman (Random House, $28), is a well-researched...
Gritty Realism Inspires Western Author Michael Zimmer’s Love of the West
Author Michael Zimmer was raised in Colorado, where he learned to break horses at a young age. Later, after his family moved to Indiana, he dreamt...
Rough Drafts 9/14
Looking for love? A romantic at heart? How about an Old West Romance!? As editor of the Western Books Department, I am fortunate to receive advance...
Rough Drafts 8/14
The summer is heating up and publishers are beginning to release news on their fall catalogs. One book I’ve been looking forward to is Max Evans...
Robert E. Lee’s Legacy East and West
As the United States commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, historians have had an opportunity to revisit the legacy and lives of...
Edwin R. Sweeney’s Passion for the West Revealed
Cochise biographer Edwin R Sweeney fell in love with the West like a lot of us: through television and a good school library. Raised in and near...
Rough Drafts 7/14
During the recent Arizona History Convention in Prescott, Arizona, a group of us were treated to keynote speaker Paul Andrew Hutton (who is on...
Crusade for Justice on Minnesota Frontier
In August 1862, President Abraham Lincoln’s Army of the Potomac was being fought to a standstill by Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia...
Treasures of the Old West
When the Spanish explored the West, they discovered numerous ruins clinging to cliff sides and mountain tops. Today, many of these ancient Puebloan...
Rough Drafts 6/14
For the second year, True West staff presence at the Tucson Festival of Books was a great success. Headquartered at the Arizona Inn, Executive...
Territorial Greed: Sins and Sinners of the Santa Fe Ring Revealed
Corruption, fraud, intimidation, murder and assassination, all weapons of power and greed the politicians of the Santa Fe Ring used during their...