Raining Bricks and Shooting Citizens
In 1906, San Francisco, was one of the jewels of the American West. The California boomtown of the 1850s had grown into the ninth largest city in the United States. Both a port and a railroad town, serving as a major conduit for trade with the Orient, the city was an...
The Wandering Visionary
A hidden assassin with a shotgun blasted Charles Lummis in the face and chest. He was bloodied, blown off his feet, and left to die in the doorway of a one-room adobe, but Lummis was not bowed. Pugnacious and convinced he was larger than life, Lummis possessed a...
Indie Westerns Lead the Way
After years on a starvation diet of barely one movie per year, Westerns fans face a feast of entertainment unseen since the early 1960s. While this winter’s mega-budget hits The Hateful Eight and The Revenant have been getting the most press, they are not the only...
Soldiers At Play
Troops serving in the frontier American West spent most of their time on routine matters, occasionally punctuated by hard campaigning, but they also found time to relax. The isolation of many frontier posts meant diversions depended on individual ingenuity to stave...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
