Screenwriter Dan Gordon reveals the real story behind the making of the blockbuster biopic. When it comes to the events in Tombstone on October 26,...
Wyatt Earp at 30
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Western Books & Movies
California Dreaming
Two new books about the rise of Los Angeles and Hollywood, plus an overlooked story of slavery in Nebraska, a Western detective novel, the real and...
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Seventy-five years after its debut, John Ford's second cavalry Western is considered one of the greatest Westerns. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, the...
Saddle Up with a Western
Old West fiction and nonfiction are the perfect genres to fill your summer reading list. Every season is a good season to read, but summer is when...
Tale of Two Cities
Two new mining town histories, plus a Ford film trilogy history, a biography of Buffalo Bill, Lincoln’s spies and a conman for the ages. The history...
In Search of the Real Bass Reeves
For a century, slave-turned-Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was legendary among history buffs, but with the general public, he couldn’t get...
Tucson Book Festival
On Saturday morning, March 9, 2024, the sun rose over Tucson, Arizona, after two days of overcast skies and rain. Fifteen years since the first...
Grit and Grace
Across the past 150 years of Western American history scholarship, dozens of authors have been inspired to research and write about mining in the...
Blazing Bergman!
A half-century after Andrew Bergman penned Blazing Saddles, the epic comic Western is still a cultural tour de force. Sure, Andrew Bergman has...
The Shadow Catcher
Larry Peterson’s extraordinary new biography of Edward S. Curtis, plus two new classic Westerns, a Pony Express travel adventure and a history of a...
Best of the West: Western Movies
Everybody’s West: 2024 will be remembered as a bellwether year for diversity in Western film productions and subject matter. “Compared to the 20th...
Best of the West: Western Books
The Wild, Wild West Western writers—and True West’s editors—are fighting hard to keep the genre alive. If you love to read about the...