In Search of the West
Can you imagine walking in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery as they saw the Pacific Coast for the first time? Fighting the Comanches on the frontier lines with the Texas Rangers? Following the Santa Fe Trail from Bent’s Fort to Santa Fe with...
The Moonshiner Who Got Away with Murder
“My daddy, he made whiskey And my granddaddy did too And we ain’t paid no whiskey tax Since Seventeen Ninety-Two.” —Albert Frank Beddoe The notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was given a 25-year prison sentence for murder in the second degree after...
Andy Thomas
Charlie Russell is special because he combined artwork with authentic cowboys, Indians, history and a drink or two. Good man, that Charlie. For Charlie Russell and His Characters, the bartender is the only character not from a Russell painting because he is Sid...
The Ball that Killed Wild Bill
If Wild Bill Hickok was buried in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, why was the bullet that killed him buried in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1910? You already know the answer if you know about Bill Massie, and if you don’t, you need to. Massie was a Missouri River...
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
