Top 10 True Western Towns of 2013
#1 Fort Smith, Arkansas Location is everything in real estate. It’s also pretty darned important in history. The western Arkansas town of Fort Smith sits tucked in a bend of the Arkansas River, up against the border of what was once the Indian Territory, on the very...
The Rocky Mountain Rangers
The Canadian prairies were anything but polite in 1885. In southwestern Alberta, rancher William Cochrane wrote his father: “There is a great deal of uneasiness about the Indians…Riel’s runners are in their camps, and it seems doubtful what they will do…we ought...
Looking for the Shawnee Trail
What was it John Wayne said in Red River? “Ten miles a day will be good. Fifteen will be luck.” Sounds just about right. I’m inching my way toward the Dallas North Tollway on the way to Frisco, Texas, and it looks like all 1.2 million Dallasites have the same idea. I...
True West’s Best Movies, TV Series & DVDs of 2012
We run into John Wayne fans everywhere we go in this great nation of ours, and by New Year’s Day, after the holiday gifts have all been exchanged or traded in for something better (hey, it happens!), we bet a lot of them will have big smiles on their faces. The John...
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
