Features & Gunfights Archives

Best of the West 2023

by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 8, 2022

At 70 years old, we pause, reflect and celebrate the grand milestone. In 1953, Austin, Texas, publisher Joe A. Small launched True West...

Little by Liddil (Jesse Goes Down)

by Bob Boze Bell | Dec 8, 2022

Wood Hite vs. Dick Liddil Maps & Graphics by Gus Walker. Based on the research of Dr. Sam Palmer and Dan Thrapp. December 4, 1881 James...

The Power of Pictures

by TW Editors | Dec 8, 2022

The very best historical photographs from our treasured vaults define our idea of the West. In honor of our 70th year, the editors of True West have...

Hallowed Ground & Honored Heroes

by True West Editors and Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 30, 2022

Across the West, cemeteries, monuments and memorials provide a poignant reminder of the West’s historic past. Across the United States...

The Legendary Jack Dalton

by Michael Engelhard | Oct 30, 2022

Was he Alaska's greatest backwoodsman and trailblazer? A Haines woman who’d known John “Jack” Dalton as a frequent guest at her...

The Accidental Explorer

by Mike Coppock | Oct 30, 2022

From the Alaskan Arctic to the Bearpaw Battlefield in Montana, Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a man of action and adventure. In...

Quick as Lightning and Used to Killing Men

by Bob Boze Bell | Oct 30, 2022

Billy “the Kid” Claiborne vs Buckskin Frank Leslie Tombstone Lives Up to its Claim: A Man for Breakfast Every Morning November 14,...

Surviving Winter

by TW Editors | Oct 30, 2022

Artist David Wright’s decades of field research in all seasons reveal the beauty of the coldest season and the tenacity of the mountain men who made...

Uncle Chick, Me and the Christmas Tree

by Jeb Rosebrook | Oct 30, 2022

Looking back at Charles Orme’s ranch school, where students are still taught to this day. The aging Chevrolet Carryall van turned off the Old Black...