Modernization of Mexico’s Army
Stephen B. Neufeld’s The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876-1911 (University of New Mexico Press, $29.95) represents extensive research in primary Mexican sources. This socio-cultural history began during the author’s doctoral...
The 65 Most Important Historical Photos From the McCubbin Collection
A charter subscriber to this magazine, which first hit newsstands in 1953, Robert G. McCubbin has been collecting original photographs ever since. He bought his first photograph, of “Black Jack” Ketchum, in the same year (for $50). Over the past 65 years, he has...
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...
True West July/August 2025
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