For decades, the Mandan people of the northern plains, whose vast and well-organized communities greeted French trappers and Lewis and Clark, were...
Rediscovering the Mandan’s Heart of the World
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Stuart Rosebrook
The Best Historical Roadside Markers You Have to See
Driving America’s byways and highways is a personal experience I’ve enjoyed since I first drove to Arizona with a buddy on a road trip in 1980. I...
An American Tale: Wild Mustangs and the Spirit of a Nation
Deep in the subconscious spirit of the people of the Americas is a love affair with the horse. While the modern horse did not come to the Western...
Ann Kirschner’s Favorite Reads
Ann Kirschner, university dean of Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, is a strong and determined historian who finds...
Rough Drafts 3/14
My best Western combo for this winter: Glendon Swarthout’s The Homesman, a novel re-released on Valentine’s Day by Simon & Schuster and an...
Rough Drafts 2/14
From the previews of Western fiction and nonfiction I am receiving, 2014 promises to be a big year for all of us. Fans of Western books should...
American Hero Rediscovered
Born in Somerset, New Jersey, on January 5, 1779, into a patriotic family battling the British for American independence, Zebulon Montgomery Pike...
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...