Best of the West: Western Preservation
Love Them All Pick my favorite column of 2023? No way. I am supposed to write about my favorite Old West Savior of 2023. The problem is, I don’t have a favorite column from last year—I loved every one. I loved every determined, stubborn, sock-it-to-me fearlessness...
John “Liver-Eating” Johnson
How did he earn his terrifying nickname? The sun lay low on the horizon over Battle Mountain in northwestern Colorado. The big man on the imposing black stallion veered off the trail and onto the shale and gravel scattered along the hillside and dismounted. He stood...
Following Billy the Kid
Tracking the legend across Arizona and New Mexico is still an adventure. It’s easy to start a travel story when you know where your subject was born. Mark Twain? Florida, Missouri. Billy the Kid …? “Billy the Kid was reportedly born all over the world,” says Melody...
The Man, The Myth, The Meal
A culinary biography of Buffalo Bill, plus a new bio of Newton Earp, a range-war Western, a classic rediscovered and a dramatic debut Old West novel. True West’s Collecting the West columnist and William F. Cody historian Steve Friesen has just released...
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
