True West Best of the West 2018 Western Books
In 2013, I started managing and writing the “Western Books” column for True West. In those five years, I have received between 400 and 600 books a year from a broad swath of American and international publishers and authors. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography...
Lieutenant Amiel Whipple
Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple was referred to as the wheel horse among the Army’s Corps of Topographical Engineers surveying Arizona during the 1850’s. The treaty makers had made a number of snafus when establishing the new 1,500-mile boundary between the United States and...
Surviving a Meal in Dodge City
Once the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway reached the cowtown of Dodge City, Kansas, in 1872, restaurants and hotels sprang up, between 1872 and 1880, to cater to visitors and residents alike. Meals could be had at hotels that included the Dodge House, Wright...
Aimee Semple McPherson Part I
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 rogues. Aimee Kennedy was born on the family farm near Ingersoll, Ontario in 1890, the...
True West March/April 2025
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