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Building Your Western Library with Orin Vaughn

Building Your Western Library with Orin Vaughn

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....
The Absolute Best Historically Accurate Westerns

The Absolute Best Historically Accurate Westerns

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...
Modernization of Mexico’s Army

Modernization of Mexico’s Army

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...
The 65 Most Important Historical Photos From the McCubbin Collection

The 65 Most Important Historical Photos From the McCubbin Collection

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...
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Books

True West Best of the West 2018 Western Books

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...
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True West July/August 2025

In This Issue:

Features

  • Relive the Golden Age of Western Railroads
  • The Way West
  • Brushy Billy
  • Martín Chávez
  • Billy Before Burns
  • The Resurrection of Billy the Kid
  • Mountain Meadows Musings
  • Truth be Known

Western Books & Movies

  • Val Kilmer’s ‘Billy’
  • Building your Western Library
  • 2025 WWA Spur Awards
  • Heroes and Heroines of the West

To The Point

  • Buckeye’s Dream

More In This Issue

  • What History Has Taught Me
  • Cavalcade of Ask The Marshall
  • The Gateway to Mount Rushmore
  • Will Rogers, the Chili Lover
  • On the New Mexico Trail of Billy the Kid
  • The $6 Million Shot
  • Springtime in the West
  • Cowboy Al’s Wild West Museum
  • The Toll of the Bell
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