Fred Waite is notorious to history as a member of the Regulators, the group featuring Billy the Kid involved in the Lincoln County (NM) War. Waite...
A Badman Gone Good
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Features & Gunfights
Screenwriter, Novelist and Friend of True West Jeb J. Rosebrook Dies at Age 83
SCOTTSDALE (August 31, 2018) — On Friday night Jeb J. Rosebrook passed away at the age of 83 surrounded by his wife, son and daughter in Scottsdale,...
Arizona’s Legendary Hot Springs
In Arizona, few places possess a local mystique as strong as that of Castle Hot Springs. Located in the southern foothills of the Bradshaw...
This is Where Cole Younger Dies
Tracking the Jamesless-Younger Gang, September 21, 1876 During the two weeks since the botched bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota, the surviving...
Cole Younger, American Outlaw
Cole Younger has to be the toughest outlaw who ever lived. In addition to having 11 slugs in his body, Cole had to guide his horse with his knees...
The Best Western Art Museums
Hollywood and Western mythology seemed to strike a chord with Western art museums and their patrons, but, as usual, this year’s top Western art...
Boxing’s First Champion
The manly art of prizefighting has been around since the beginning of recorded time, but only in the last decade has the sport been promoted into a...
Gateways to the Old West
Get your mule, load the wagon and let’s take a look at the best museums of the West. St. Louis, known as the Gateway to the West, takes our top...
Time to Die
Four years before controversial lawman Ben Thompson and pal John King Fisher were killed at the Vaudeville Theatre in San Antonio, Texas, on March...
New “Old” Photo of 1896 Fight
Over 65 years of publication, True West has developed a loyal following of readers who send us historical Old West photographs to preserve in our...
A Graphic Novel Breaks Ground
I grew up reading the Classics Illustrated comic book series, especially those about Daniel Boone and other frontiersmen. I got a lot of these...
Beyond Awesome
Grandeur is often associated with the paintings of early artists of the American West: George Caleb Bingham, Karl Bodmer, William Jacob Hays, Thomas...