A True Westerner Indeed
Phil Spangenberger 1940-2024 Last September 26, 2024, True West’s beloved Firearms Editor, Phil Spangenberger, died suddenly during a heart procedure. He contributed to True West for more than two decades and we wanted to send him off with an extended memorial...
Walk Where They Walked
How do you get hooked on history at a young age—or at any age, for that matter? I’d say one of the best ways is to get out of the library and classroom and walk where history happened. For me it started in Jerome and Clarkdale, Arizona. My earliest memories of...
Legends of the West
In the annals of North American history, the fabled lore of the horse and the mountain man are two of the most chronicled and beloved. From Columbus’s introduction of the horse to the New World in 1494 to the empirical battle to control North America through the fur...
Cave Creek’s Untamed Legacy
Miners searched for lucrative gold strikes in the Cave Creek mining district 140 years ago. Soldiers from nearby Fort McDowell fought off marauding Apaches to protect miners in those early days. “Cave Creek started as a rough-an- tumble mining town back around 1880,”...
True West January/February 2025
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