150 Years on the Goodnight-Loving Trail
What better adventure than to follow the trail blazed by Woodrow Call and Gus McRae—plus Dish, Deets, Newt and my personal favorite, Pea Eye Parker? Oh, wait. Larry McMurtry won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1985 novel, Lonesome Dove, but that’s fiction. The real trail,...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2016
Don’t lie awake worrying that our history has been forgotten. After compiling this list of great Western towns, we know it’s in good hands. Across what once was a boom-and-bust landscape, we found a stable network of historians, curators, preservationists, tour guides...
The Croquet Kid
An earthquake hit the Old West field in the fall of 2015. And a staid, relatively genial and, for the most part, collegial area of study was dragged into the mud of modernity—because of a four-inch-by-five-inch piece of tin that may contain a picture of Billy the Kid....
Priceless Mormon Treasure
Vicky Doolittle knew her great-aunt’s house in Mendon, Utah, contained an amazing secret. Yet when she tried to tell others in her family, they thought she was fibbing. “My cousin didn’t believe it. My husband is a builder, and he said, ‘No way.’ But my husband had to...
True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows
Western Books & Movies
