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...
The Bacon Cure
On his way from Illinois to California in 1852, William Henry Hart wrote, “The bacon too that I had always disliked even the sight of, became very good eating proving that nothing makes us relish our food as much as a good appetite.” Bacon was one of the few meat...
The West’s Newest Museum
We will be a living institution. We will offer experiences. We will be the storytellers.” That’s how museum director Michael J. Fox describes his latest project: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, in the historic downtown of an Arizona city that calls itself the “West’s...
The 100 Best Historical Photos of the American Indian
Alfred Jacob Miller, George Catlin, John Mix Stanley and Karl Bodmer’s romantic illustrations of America’s frontier Indians were matchless eyewitness portrayals until the advent of the camera. Thomas Easterly is credited as the first to photograph American Indians in...
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
