Bat Masterson
The deadly and dangerous life of the man who invented Wyatt Earp. Thanks to a 1960s television show starring Gene Barry, Bat Masterson was called a “legend in his own time,” at least in the popular imagination. But the legend actually began long before that, in August...
True West Comes Clean
A look at our mistakes throughout the years. We were snookered. Duped. Fooled. Em-barrassed. Sideswiped by a “discovery” that turns out to be fake. In the 50 years of this magazine, the editors made a fair amount of mistakes. We’ve parroted popular notions that turned...
Casper, Wyoming
The historic trail town celebrates its Western heritage all year round. The College National Finals Rodeo in 2021 was not Casper’s first rodeo. The central Wyoming city on the North Platte River in fact has hosted the collegiate finals for two decades in the...
Wagons Ho!
True West’s historians reveal the real history behind Taylor Sheridan’s 1883. Hollywood producers, directors and writers have often attempted to re-create the grandiosity and pageantry of an epic period in history on the silver screen and television. From...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
