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...
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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...
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...