America’s Trailblazer
Jerry Enzler’s new biography of Jim Bridger, and new histories of Lewis and Clark, the grand masters of Western art, war on the central plains and Max McCoy’s latest Western. In my earliest days of reading American history, biography was a staple of my education. A...
Elmer Kelton Country
A trip tracking the Texas author across the Lone Star State is sure to create memorable stories. The frontier town of Mobeetie was taking on some of the appearances of civilization, although not all the realities of it.” That’s the first description of a Texas town in...
Knight of the Rockies
Jim Bridger, once a teenaged mountain man, became the most dependable and renowned trailblazer of the vast lands of the American West. For more than a century, some historians have marked a distinct period of exploration dating from the expedition of Lewis and Clark...
The Duke Stars on a New Stage
His personal belongings tell a lot about the big man. The wooden crate is 8-by-8-by-8 feet. Inside the oversized box are bag after bag of unopened fan mail, all addressed to the same man. Some have real addresses; others just say “John Wayne, Hollywood, California,”...
True West July/August 2025
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