Great Movie (and TV) Hats
Despite the television show’s invitation to return to “those thrilling days of yesteryear,” The Lone Ranger of the 1950s depicted times, places and things as they never were. The mask alone would have earned the Texas Ranger, John Reid, a necktie party by one...
Gunfighter Graves
“Doc Holliday…He Died in Bed.” Wow, who knew this deathbed twist would jolt True West’s Facebook fans to generate the first major top-rated feed in the magazine’s social media history? It is shocking that tuberculosis turned out to be the loaded gun that claimed...
Colt’s Cavalry Pistol to the Rescue
Colt Peacemaker. Just the sound of these words conjures up images of the Wild West. They bring to life scenes of bustling smoke-filled saloons and dusty frontier streets, of thundering cavalry pistol charges across wide-open prairies and of great cattle herds and the...
Pistol Pete
Today, Pistol Pete, his six-shooters popping the air, is the iconic symbol for three Western universities: Oklahoma State University, the University of Wyoming and New Mexico State University. But on the American frontier, the real-life Pistol Pete, named Frank Eaton,...
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
