Where the West Comes Alive
The best Western towns welcome visitors with a great mix of hometown hospitality, annual historic re-enactments and heritage events.
Features
Little Bighorn’s Forgotten Hero
A historian remembers an extraordinary afternoon with Trooper Charlie Windolph and its influence on an extraordinary career.
Eyewitness to History
Remarkable photographs by German immigrant-turned-soldier Christian Barthelmess offer a window into a soldier’s life in the West.
Black Kettle: The People’s Peacemaker
The valiant Southern Cheyenne chief never stopped believing that peace and freedom WERE possible for his tribe.
I Will Fight No More Forever
Chief Joseph’s leadership of the Nez Perces from Yellowstone to Bear Paw remains a defining moment in American Indian history.
Ride the Devil’s Herd
How the Cowboys Ruled Tombstone before Wyatt Earp.
2020 True West Best of the West
Our 18th Annual Celebration of the Absolute Best of the West!
The Earp Rap Sheet
Before Wichita, Dodge City and Tombstone, the Earp Brothers were more notorious than heroic.
Earps Gone Wild
Brothers Wyatt and Morgan’s “bum” year pimping in Peoria, Illinois, primed them for their future as frontier boomtown opportunists on both sides of the law.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Glorified, fictionalized and hotly debated, the enigmatic lawman’s life from antebellum Illinois to urban Los Angeles remains iconically fascinating 90 years after his death.
Wyatt Earp: The West’s Dark Knight
The Man, The Myth And The Search for Order.
True West’s 20th Anniversary Celebration
On the anniversary of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, we celebrated in Cave Creek.