Best of the West: Western Movies
Everybody’s West: 2024 will be remembered as a bellwether year for diversity in Western film productions and subject matter. “Compared to the 20th century, where there was a bottlenecking [of] history into one particular pathway, in the 21st century, there are so many...
Best of the West: Western Books
The Wild, Wild West Western writers—and True West’s editors—are fighting hard to keep the genre alive. If you love to read about the Old West, True West’s era of publishing since 1953 has been a glorious time for writers, researchers, scholars and...
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...
True West July/August 2025
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