Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Beecher Island Map and Youthful Scouts The map accompanying the article on Beecher Island in the June 2021 True West issue has the...
The Tonto Basin Campaign 1872-1873
The governor of the Arizona Territory Anson P.K. Safford, representatives from Arizona and California appealed to President Ulysses S. Grant to bring Lt. Colonel George Crook to deal with the Yavapai and Apache problem in Arizona. Crook was selected over several...
What History Has Taught Me: Jeremy Rowe
Dr. Jeremy Rowe, Photographer, Historian, Scientist Dr. Jeremy Rowe has collected and researched 19th- and early 20th-century photographs and wrote Arizona Photographers 1850-1920: A History and Directory, Arizona Real Photo Postcards: A History and Portfolio, Early...
Have Camera, Will Travel
The Fearless Mirror Makers of the Arizona Territory Arizona and the Southwest were virtually unknown in the middle of the 19th century. A few publications described travel across the area after the Mexican War and the area defined by the Gadsden Purchase as...
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
