by | Jun 5, 2023 | True West Blog
Arizona played a part in one of the great hoaxes of the 1920s when Aimee Semple McPherson, a popular Hollywood show business evangelist, was allegedly kidnapped by a band of kidnappers. Aimee was born the daughter of a zealous tambourine-thumping soldier in the...
by Henry C. Parke | May 5, 2023 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies
The award-winning Hollywood icon saddles back up for Dead for a Dollar, a new Western. Having not directed a Western since 2006’s Broken Trail, Walter Hill is happy to be back in the saddle again. “Oh, it’s very good. I like making Westerns. I think I’ve...
by Mike Cox | May 5, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
Ten Texas Rangers who never stood down Now riding into their third century, one of the nation’s oldest law enforcement agencies carries a double-barreled brand known worldwide—Texas Rangers. In August 1823, in a settler’s cabin on the Colorado River in present...
by Phil Spangenberger | May 5, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, Shooting from the Hip
Rugged and accurate, this six-shooter was a mainstay of the Civil War and the American Frontier during the cap-and-ball era. What today’s firearms enthusiasts call the “1858 Remington,” is actually the “New Model Army,” due to the name given it by the Navy Arms Co....
by True West | May 1, 2023 | True West Blog
History and adventure go hand in hand out here. The epic stories of Southeast Montana have been passed down through time, as captivating and dynamic as the striking landscape itself. Discover the history of this region by experiencing all its wonder in the present....