by | Sep 25, 2023 | True West Blog
In the years before the 1840’s the favorite side arm was a knife, and the big guy with long arms had a distinct advantage. Before the coming of the revolver and repeating rifle the Indians boasted superior firepower with bows and arrows. A warrior could unleash...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Sep 22, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
A remembrance of Larry McMurtry, a new history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a wild Western tale, Apache boarding schools and a new collection of Old West stories. Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry...
by James B. Mills | Sep 22, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
A decade since the highest-grossing Western was released, the film remains controversial. There are many disconcerting issues that a young historian of the American frontier must confront as the 10-year anniversary of the release of Django Unchained...
by | Sep 4, 2023 | True West Blog
Never in the history of the world has there been a place like the American West. The pristine uncharted land, its natural beauty, blessed with veritable mountains of gold, silver, and copper. It was as if the Almighty had decreed this land as a place to create a...
by True West | Aug 18, 2023 | True Westerners, What History Has Taught Me
Historian and Educator Bradley G. Courtney, Prescott, Arizona’s “Whiskey Row Historian,” has written books and articles, and has lectured extensively on the history of that town’s famously infamous stretch of saloons that started forming in 1864. He learned in 2011...