by Orin Vaughn | Jan 23, 2018 | Building Your Western Library, Western Books & Movies
Influenced by the radio and TV Western heroes of his youth—like the Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy and Gunsmoke’s Matt Dillon, author Orin (Bob) Vaughn has had a love for the authenticity and honesty of the Old West for as long as he could remember....
by Henry C. Parke | Jan 22, 2018 | Features & Gunfights
To put it mildly, we at True West have been overjoyed—nay, overwhelmed—by our readers’ responses to the deceptively simple question: Which is the most historically accurate Western film, and why? With nearly 1,000 responses, we mulled over plenty of nominations. If we...
by John Langellier | Jan 8, 2018 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
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...
by True West Editors Robert G. McCubbin | Dec 25, 2017 | Features & Gunfights
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...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 11, 2017 | Features & Gunfights
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...