True West, Author at True West Magazine

Home on the Range

by True West | Sep 4, 2022

For four decades, former Nebraska homesteader-turned-frontier photographer Solomon D. Butcher posed homesteader families and their livestock in...

What History Has Taught Me: W.K. (Kip) Stratton

by True West | Sep 2, 2022

Author, Historian, Poet W.K. (Kip) Stratton wrote the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the...

Western Roundup: July/August 2022

by True West | Sep 2, 2022

PRESCOTT FRONTIER DAYS’ WORLD’S OLDEST RODEO Prescott, AZ, June 28-July 4: The 135th annual rodeo celebrates the 50th anniversary of the release of...

Shooting Back

by True West | Sep 2, 2022

Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. 1883 and...

Working on the Railroad

by True West | Sep 2, 2022

Were they employees of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad? The six men in the photo, including the four on the handcart and two with steel bars on the...

Western Roundup: June 2022

by True West | Sep 2, 2022

Gold Rush Days Sidney, NE, June 10-12: Experience the Black Hills gold rush of 1876 through skits, re-enactments and cowboy lore about the town’s...

What History Has Taught Me: Jeffrey J. Mariotte

by True West | Sep 2, 2022

Author, Graphic Novelist Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the award-winning author of dozens of books, including the historical Western epic Blood and Gold:...

Shooting Back

by True West | Sep 1, 2022

Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Along the...

Deadly Gunplay

by True West | Aug 18, 2022

Charles M. Russell’s 1908 Smoke of a .45 captures the violent chaos caused by short tempers and whiskey on the Western frontier. Courtesy Google Art...