The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
Pathfinder Jim Bridger tangles with Prophet Brigham Young Jim Bridger was one of the most skilled mountain men in American history. In 1822, when he was 18, he joined Andrew Henry and William Ashley’s Enterprising Young Men “to ascend the river Missouri...
Discover the Grandeur of the West
Western museums bring our past alive for today’s and tomorrow’s generations. 1. United States Marshals Museum (Fort Smith, AR) “We are Cherokee: Cherokee Freedman and the Right to Citizenship” is on display this year at the museum. It explains the story of...
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 West, but few have written about the role of women miners and their contributions to the settlement of the West. Now,...
The Day Tom Mix Died
What really happened on that lonely stretch of highway? Tom Mix had the pedal to the metal on his bright-yellow Cord Phaeton sports car as he barreled along the dirt road from Oracle Junction toward Florence, Arizona. He was in the midst of a cross-country driving...
True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows
Western Books & Movies
