The Top 10 Western Movies
Western films offer more beyond John Ford or Sam Peckinpah. Enough already about The Searchers, High Noon, The Gunfighter and The Wild Bunch. Here are 10 movies you ought to see…if you can ever find them. 10. New Mexico (1951): While Ford tended to give us happy...
Surviving Festival of the West
The Rockin’ M Wranglers don’t really look like wranglers, and Jim and Jeanne Martin certainly don’t sound like most wranglers I’ve known. The couple is yodeling away on the main stage. Most wranglers I know don’t yodel and don’t even try. Yet the crowd is tapping its...
True West’s Best of the West 2010 Winners
Here are the winners of our “2010 Best of the West.” Sit back and see if your pick made the list. Best Hotel in the West Menger Hotel San Antonio’s Menger Hotel celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2009. And what a history it has seen—guests have...
Following Calamity Jane
Born in Missouri in 1856 Martha Canary came west with her family, spent part of her childhood in the Montana gold fields near Virginia City and Nevada City, and came of age in Utah following the death of her parents (her mother in Montana, her father in Utah). She...
True West January/February 2025
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