Discover the tourist West in American Dude Ranch, and read a frontier murder-mystery, a novel of Libbie Custer, a Santa Fe Trail adventure and a bio...
The Thrill of the West
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Stuart Rosebrook
Dreaming Nevada
Adventures await across the Silver State for the visitor who loves small towns and history. Growing up in Southern California, I spent a great deal...
This Land is Your Land
Pack your bags and saddle up. Adventures await across the American West. Twenty years ago True West magazine launched its annual travel issue, and...
A Place of Wonder, A Time of Turmoil
A dynamic history of the creation of Yellowstone, a new gunfighter debate, a fresh interpretation of Western women and family, a Great Plains...
The Silver King
A new biography of George Hearst, plus a new bio of James K.P. Miller, a multigenerational women’s story, a history of poker in the West and a new...
Best of the West 2022: Western Books
The Western Hangs On While Old West history titles wane, classic Western fiction continues to sell. The canary in the coal mine of Old West...
Best of the West 2022: True Westerner of the Year
Riding - and Writing - for the Brand! Phil Spangenberger If you have ever spoken to Phil Spangenberger about the Old West, historical firearms,...
Yellowstone: Protected Forever
The 150th anniversary of the first national park commemorates the beginning of America’s grand and wonderful national parks and monuments system. On...
The Roads Less Traveled
Adventures await along the West’s byways and highways to history. As the first rays of the morning sun greet us just over the horizon as we...
Chaos of a Boomtown
A Yankee prospector’s scrapbook of his summer in Nome reveals the hardships of the Arctic gold rush. On a stormy May 23, 1900, Connecticut native...
America’s Trailblazer
Jerry Enzler’s new biography of Jim Bridger, and new histories of Lewis and Clark, the grand masters of Western art, war on the central plains and...
Notorious and Legendary
John Boessenecker’s new biography of Pearl Hart, plus a new dual bio of Geronimo and Sitting Bull, new histories of train robbing and the Western...