Townful of Santas
Minden bills itself as “Nebraska’s Christmas City,” stringing 15,000 lights throughout its town square to seal the deal. But to know why this town of just 3,000 deserves to wear the heart and spirit of Christmas, then the story of a giving and generous community...
Reading, Writing and Riding with Spur Award-Winner Rod Miller
Reading, writing and riding might be Rod Miller’s life mantra. A fourth-generation Utah native, the former college and PRCA cowboy grew up in Goshen. His father was a working cowboy and ranch manager, and Rod spent many hours on horseback helping to manage the...
22 Guns that Won the West!
The “Gun That Won the West” is a subject that many firearms and Old West aficionados love to discuss and debate. Was the so-called West-winning gun given this coveted title because of the great numbers in which it was produced, or for the work it accomplished? Or was...
The Australian Jesse James
Can a film be a Western if the story takes place on the other side of the globe? Writer-Director Matthew Holmes makes a convincing case. “In the ‘Wild West’ period, Australia and America had the same things happening at the same time—gold rushes, outlaws, lawmen, the...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
