Top 10 True Western Towns of 2014
Historic eras come and go. The Era of Good Feelings. The Roaring Twenties. The Gilded Age. None, though, has captured the popular imagination like the Old West. One reason—among many—is its sheer tangibility. Thanks to the determined efforts of preservationists,...
The Assassination of Pat Garrett
For the 57-year-old lawman, his was an undignified death. Pat Garrett was urinating on the side of the road to Las Cruces, New Mexico, about four miles east of town. As he was so occupied, somebody hidden about 50 feet behind him put a Winchester bulletin the back of...
Talking Dutch
I had shaken Elmore Leonard’s hand three times, twice at book signings and once on a movie set, years before I wrote him a letter in 2008 and asked if he would be a part of a book I was putting together for McFarland called The Westerners: Interviews with Actors,...
Jay Dusard’s Favorite Reads
Artist, writer, horseman, musician, teacher, Jay Dusard, who lives in his beloved borderland country near Douglas, Arizona, is known internationally for his large-format, black and white landscape photography. He is equally renowned for his acclaimed The North...
True West January/February 2025
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