Born in Somerset, New Jersey, on January 5, 1779, into a patriotic family battling the British for American independence, Zebulon Montgomery Pike...
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Stuart Rosebrook
Hard Living: Elmore Leonard’s West
Life was hard in Elmore Leonard’s West. Living and dying in “Leonard’s Arizona Territory” was somewhere between Heaven and Hell. His characters...
True West’s Best Western Books of 2013
Publishers dealt readers a “royal flush” of Western books in 2013—big epic fiction, cutting edge new Western history and robust biographies about...
Rough Drafts 1/14
Western Books Roundup 2013: Ten that Got Away The year 2013 will be remembered as a big year for Western Books, and True West has worked hard to...
True West’s Best Heritage Travel for 2014
From Arkansas to Alaska, from Texas to Montana, True West Magazine for sixty years has dedicated itself to traveling along America’s byways and...
True West’s Best of the West 2014 Winners
Here are the winners of our "2014 Best of the West." Sit back and see if your pick made the list. Congratulations to our 2014 Best of the West...
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I love bookstores. During college, I worked for Dutton’s Books in North Hollywood, California. For decades, Dave Dutton and his family had one of...
Jeffrey Richardson’s favorite reads
Raised in Georgia, Jeffrey Richardson, the Autry National Center’s Gamble curator of Western History, Popular Culture and Firearms, is passionate...
A Timeless Tale of an American Family
Historian Andrew R Graybill’s passionate, multi-generational history, The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West (Liveright...
Rough Drafts 11/13
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War has produced numerous new volumes on the bloody conflict, but recent publications on the effects of the war in...
Rough Drafts 10/13
Almost all of True West’s readers polled say they are fanatics of historical Western nonfiction and Investigating History, and that they keep...
Blood, Glory & Greed in Texas
Over the last century, critics have struggled with categorizing the literature of the American West, sweeping laureates of the genre such as Mark...