Ted Franklin Belue, Musician and Writer A Western Writers of America’s Spur Award-winner, Ted Franklin Belue solved Boone’s “lost grave” mystery in...
What History Has Taught Me: Ted Franklin Belue
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True West
Shooting Back
The Many Faces of the Mountain Man A year ago, True West’s cover featured the fine art painting by ZS Liang titled Mountain Man. Liang’s masterpiece...
Stand to Be Counted
Dakota Territory photographer David Francis Barry, well known for his portraits of Chief Joseph and Sitting Bull, recorded census day at the Sioux...
Western Roundup: November 2021
42nd Annual Wickenburg Bluegrass Festival Wickenburg, AZ, November 12-14 The Four Corner States Bluegrass Festival is sponsored by the...
What History Has Taught Me: C. Courtney Joyner
C. Courtney Joyner, Screenwriter, Author, Film Historian Joyner is a writer with more than 25 movie screenplays to his credit including The...
Land Ho!
On April 22, 1889, 50,000 land-hungry settlers rushed onto two million acres of Central Oklahoma’s Unassigned Lands. The land rush was the first of...
Introducing Western Artist Charles M. Russell to a New Generation Sponsored by the South Dakota Historical Society Press
By Karen B. McWhorter, Whitney Western Art Museum Charlie Russell and the Gnomes of Bull Head Lodge whisks readers away to a clean-aired place where...
Western Roundup: October 2021
The Woolaroc Retrospective Exhibit and Sale Bartlesville, OK, October 16-December 31 This year’s show will feature William Acheff, Scott L....
What History Has Taught Me: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Ben Nighthorse Campbell For over 60 years, Northern Cheyenne artist Ben Nighthorse has been creating beautiful, one-of-a-kind, award-winning...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Beecher...
The Walk Down
My Darling Clemetine is renowned Western artist Thom Ross’s latest interpretation of the walk down prior to the shootout behind the O.K. Corral on...
Was Wyatt Earp a Hero or a Villain? Live with Bob Boze Bell
Was Wyatt Earp a HERO or a VILLAIN? Tune in on August 18th at 5pm PDT to hear Bob Boze Bell's take on the matter. Watch on Facebook:...