Features & Gunfights Archives

Wagons Ho!

by TW Editors | Feb 26, 2022

True West's historians reveal the real history behind Taylor Sheridan’s 1883. Hollywood producers, directors and writers have often attempted...

Wyoming’s Colorful Characters

by Candy Moulton | Feb 26, 2022

Hit the road where the famous roamed across the Cowboy State. Butch, Sundance, Wild Bill, Calamity and Buffalo Bill are just a few of the Old...

Texas’s Quanah Parker Trail

by Mike Cox | Feb 26, 2022

Discover the life of the legendary Comanche following the arrows in the Lone Star State. Quanah Parker, war chief of the last band of...

Kansas’s Santa Fe Trail

by Melody Groves | Feb 26, 2022

Traversing the Sunflower State from Leavenworth to Dodge City Timing, as they say, is everything and that certainly proved true for Missouri trader...

Dreaming Nevada

by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 26, 2022

Adventures await across the Silver State for the visitor who loves small towns and history. Growing up in Southern California, I spent a great deal...

On the True Grit Trails

by Johnny D. Boggs | Feb 25, 2022

Travel across Arkansas, Oklahoma and Colorado and discover the real and imagined locations of the iconic novel and 1969 film’s locations. All Images...

An Arizona Adventure

by Peter Corbett | Feb 25, 2022

The Earp brothers’ trail from Prescott to Tombstone is a treasure trove of historic sites. Wyatt Earp, his lawmen brothers and Doc Holliday are best...

This Land is Your Land

by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 25, 2022

Pack your bags and saddle up. Adventures await across the American West. Twenty years ago True West magazine launched its annual travel issue, and...

The Real Rooster Cogburn

by Brett Cogburn | Feb 25, 2022

Remembering my great-grandfather’s role in the creation of a classic Western fiction and film character. John Franklin Cogburn, nicknamed “Rooster”...