As biographies go, this is no doubt the best I have read in years. Clayton’s narrative story of Caroline Lockhart begins in her young reporter...
The Cowboy Girl
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Western Books & Movies
Lone Star Pasts
Attempting to define the difference between memory and reality, this book essentially is a collection of essays written to honor the Texas myth...
California Desperadoes
Between WWI and II, writers such as Stuart Lake and Walter Noble Burns penned popular, but careless, studies of Western outlaws and lawmen. They did...
Hawks and Eagles
Wandering young Joe Good returns to his Fort Willow homestead to find his peaceful father, Vincent, gunned down on orders of land-grabbing rancher...
Best Stories of the American West
The 20 short stories in this first volume vary from a 1953 Elmore Leonard reprint to more contemporary stories set in the “new” West. The topics...
The Guns of Billy the Kid
Judging by the various advertisements in this magazine, it doesn’t seem likely that True West’s readers would object to a modest documentary on the...
OUTRIDE THE DEVIL: A MORNING WITH DOC HOLLIDAY
Those who have come to know Doc Holliday take him pretty seriously. It might be said that Holliday’s stock and measure has risen to the degree that...
Truce
When assessing the contributions of Western actor Buck Taylor, suffice it to say that his star on the Kanab, Utah, walk of fame sits between those...
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
Joseph Marshall continues to touch and impress me with his insightful books on the history and traditions of the Lakota culture. This volume offers...
Tombstone’s Treasure: Silver Mines and Golden Saloons
Everyone knows about the gunfight behind the O.K. Corral, but what was Tombstone really like? Hollywood got it wrong, and True West’s executive...
Lightning and Lace
The setting for this 1898 Romance is a ranch in Texas, yet we never learn about ranch life. Pretty Bonnie Kahler is a young widow who spends most of...
Cold Cache
An immense cold cache of $3 Million lies hidden in New Mexico Territory—meant to establish a New Confederacy at the right time; that time never...