Tom Ketchum and J.N. Powers
It’s not clear why J.N. “Jap” Powers was murdered. Maybe he was a cattle thief. Or he was unpopular with his neighbors around Knickerbocker, TX. Or his wife wanted him out of the way to take up with someone else. Or a combination of those things. He was in his pasture...
Best of the West 2016: Art & Collectibles
“Now began the real work….Rawhide ‘riatas’ were taken down, and a man rode into the bunch swinging the loop round his head like clockwork. All at once he let it go, carelessly it seemed, so sudden was it; a quick turn or two round the horn of his Spanish saddle,...
The Best of True West Online 2015
#1 Billy the Kid Experts Weigh in on the Croquet Photo #2 Is This Doc Holliday? #3 Bozeman’s Darkest Night #4 The Outlaw Davy Crockett #5 The Legend of Johnny Ringo #6 Curly Bill Laughs at His Fate #7 The 100 Best Historical...
Best of the West 2016: Heritage Travel
A century and a half ago Texas was rebuilding after the Civil War. Veterans were returning home to the Lone Star State—and thousands of soldiers, North and South, were moving West, many to Texas, looking to start life anew after the horrors of war. The broad, brush...
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
