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...
by True West | Aug 18, 2023 | True West Blog
Out here in Southeast Montana bygone eras, big horizons and outdoor adventure beckon. Embark on a journey through time as you wander the hallowed grounds of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, where stories of the clash between warriors and soldiers...
by | Aug 16, 2023 | True West Blog
At the age of sixteen, Carson ran away from his job as an apprentice at a saddlery in Missouri and joined a party of traders heading down the Santa Fe Trail. By 1831, under the tutelage of the famed mountain man, Ewing Young, Carson was a first-class free trapper with...