Almost all of True West’s readers polled say they are fanatics of historical Western nonfiction and Investigating History, and that they keep...
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Stuart Rosebrook
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...
Rough Drafts 9/13
Readers will enjoy author Max Evans’s insightful views of life, nature and writing the tragic comedy in Building Your Western Library. As the new...
A Ride on the Wild Side
Like a heroic Mexican corrido, historian-musician Mark Lee Gardner’s Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s...
Rough Drafts 8/13
Searching for the West, real and imagined, is a theme of our authors and contributors this month. One of the best ways to experience the West is...
Hop Aboard! 18 Historic Train Excursions
The mystique of the Western railroads have been a part of my life since childhood—from my father’s boyhood tales of traveling the Super Chief to the...
Lone Star Empire
This should be the seat of future empire!” Republic of Texas Vice President Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar proclaimed in 1838. Straddling the Sunbelt,...
Yellowstone-Grand Teton National Parks
Travelers seeking solace in the wide open spaces of the American West will discover a wilderness Shangri-La in the Grand Teton and Yellowstone...
Remembering Dobe
"I’m riding Old Paint, I’m Leading Old Dan. I’m going to Montana just to throw the Houlihan. They feed in the coulees, they water in the draw. Their...
Boot Stompin’, Guitar Pickin’ and Soul Searchin’ Western Roadhouse Country Blues
From the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, to the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, Texas, to stages at festivals like the Lincoln...
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert, the latest honky-tonk angel to rock the white man’s Blues, has eyes that haunt you with a stare too old for her age (she’s 28). Her...
Gretchen Wilson
At the end of a perfect road trip would be a honky-tonk saloon pouring 50-cent drafts, a jukebox filled with 45s and Gretchen Wilson singing her...