Pocket Guns, Ned Kelly and The Kid
I’ve read the transcript of Wyatt Earp’s testimony at the inquest following the gunfight at (near) the O.K. Corral, and it seems he drew his gun from a coat pocket when the shooting started. Why would a professional lawman do that? Mike Burke (Wilmington,...
Paths of Glory and Days of Darkness
After the Battle of Little Bighorn, the seven officers’ wives had an immortal bond. On July 29, 1876, Elizabeth Custer requested an audience with the widows and children of the enlisted men lost at the Battle of Little Bighorn. She struggled to maintain her...
Hallowed Heroes Sacred Lands
A dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, plus a novel of the Mexican War, a history of slavery on the border, a classic Western and a history of Indian wars. Mark Lee Gardner’s The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the...
An Epic Tale of Life and Death
A great novel about the legendary Geronimo, a new history of U.S.-Mexico’s La Frontiera, two classic Western novels and a new history of Silver State shootists. Rarely do you come across an author as adept at writing both Western history and novels as W. Michael...
True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows
Western Books & Movies
