Ride the Devil’s Herd
How the Cowboys Ruled Tombstone before Wyatt Earp.
Features
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.
Another Bad Man Gone To Hell
The Life and Times of a Border Bandit.
Six-guns & Sluggers
How 150 Years ago baseball’s Cincinnati Red Stockings invaded the West by rail and seeded the national pastime across the Western frontier.
The Wonders Of The West
Discover our collective past, curated and interpreted in the best history museums of the Western United States.
Death of A Mountain Man
Jedidiah Smith’s Last Trail.
In the Hands of History
The 1873 Trapdoor Springfield Rifle.