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Rails West … And East! Rediscover America along the historic route of the transcontinental railroad in honor of the 150th anniversary of its epic construction.
“It is done!” These three words shot out across the Western telegraph to the world on May 10, 1869, at the moment Centra…
The Final Nail in the Apache Kid’s Coffin Evidence points to demise of renegade wanted on both sides of the border.
Everyone in the posse took notice of a pair of binoculars taken from the Apache’s body. The Apache Kid always carried th…
No Bull Jeb Rosebrook tapped his roots to forge rodeo cowboy Junior Bonner.
In the early 1970s, Hollywood filmmakers were leaving the studio back lots of Los Angeles with fresh screenplays in hand…
Cowboy Pens Best Rodeo Movie Ever Made Jeb Rosebrook’s highly personal memoir of the writing and producing of the Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen movie Junior Bonner recounts the special relationship between the historic Arizona city and its residents in the summer of 1971.
Prescott, Arizona, has been a center of Cowboy Culture since 1888, when civic-minded merchants first posted cash prizes …
Erroneous Ellsworth Showdown Letters help prove that the Wyatt Earp-Ben Thompson showdown is a tall tale.
Among the many questionable incidents people often repeat about Wyatt Earp’s life story, few reveal the duplicity of his…
Remembering Jeb Rosebrook A final interview reveals personal insights into the late award-winning screenwriter-author’s Hollywood career, his memoir and the making of his original screenplay into a classic film.
On August 31, 2018, my father Jeb Rosebrook—author, screenwriter and long-time contributor and friend to True West—died …
Too Tough to Die! From Arkansas to Washington, Western towns welcome the world to their historic downtowns to immerse in and celebrate the glories of the American West.
We get a kick out of those who talk about the Western myth. What myth? The frontier was as real as a sawed-off shotgun a…
Best of the West 2019: Western Movies The Future is Female? In Westerns, the future is here!
Ever since The Virginian, Owen Wister’s genre-defining Western novel, female characters have traditionally been portraye…
The Best of the Texas Rangers in Fiction The best review of the best book and best Western ever.
Martin Scorsese once said, “More than 90 percent of directing is the right casting.” Lonesome Dove is the greatest Weste…