In 1886, when Geronimo ended the Apache Wars by surrendering his Bowie knife, his Winchester rifle and his scraggly band of renegade Apaches to the...
Apache Traitor or Hero?
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Features & Gunfights
Classic Gunfights: Don’t Look Back
In office for only one day, acting Ellis County Sheriff James “Wild Bill” Hickok is making his rounds in the Kansas cowtown during the height of...
True West Best of the West Heritage Travel
Driving across the endless grasslands and cultivated fields of the prairie and plains of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado to the Rocky Mountains,...
The 65 Most Important Historical Photos From the McCubbin Collection
A charter subscriber to this magazine, which first hit newsstands in 1953, Robert G. McCubbin has been collecting original photographs ever since....
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Wear
For 65 years, True West’s editors and contributors have written about the men and women across the country who work hard every day to keep the...
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Movies
The one notable theme that has emerged from this year’s short list of Westerns is the tale of the aging tough guy or, less sentimentally, the...
True West Best of the West 2018 Firearms
From its earliest issues 65 years ago, True West has consistently recognized the importance of firearms in taming the American West—covering the...
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Books
In 2013, I started managing and writing the “Western Books” column for True West. In those five years, I have received between 400 and 600 books a...
True West Best of the West 2018 Art and Collectibles
When “Old Hosstail” Joe Austell Small founded True West Magazine 65 years ago, in 1953, he could not foresee that his pictorial publication...
True West’s Best of the West 2018
In True West’s 65th anniversary year, the magazine is proud to announce the 2018 Best of the West winners! Since 1953, this pictorial publication...
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
A large rodent determined the destiny of Kit Carson, the Mountain Men and much of the American West. The North American beaver, the second-largest...
A Bozeman Christmas
On Christmas Day in 1867, three years after the founding of this fair Montana Territory city, Bozeman was elected by citizens as the county seat....