True West’s Best of the West 2013 Winners

True West’s Best of the West 2013 Winners

Here are the winners of our “2013 Best of the West.” Sit back and see if your pick made the list.               THE BEST OF THE WEST: MOVIES   BEST INDEPENDENT WESTERN Good for NothingThough the film received polarizing reviews, we believe Good for Nothing...
The  Sodbusters’  Historian

The Sodbusters’ Historian

In 1886, Solomon Butcher had his eureka moment, the biggest idea of his life. He would compile a book, a photographic history of the pioneers of Nebraska’s Custer County. Butcher had moved to the county, named after the U.S. Army officer George Armstrong Custer, in...
The Last Hash Knife Cowboy

The Last Hash Knife Cowboy

“I consider it a damn good outfit,” George W. Hennessey once said of the infamous Hash Knife Outfit at the Aztec Land & Cattle Company, at one time the largest cattle ranch in Arizona and a brand still going strong today at northern Arizona’s Babbitt...
Buffalo Tracks

Buffalo Tracks

In the Rockies of Western Montana, I have the most perfect view of a buffalo. It’s inspiring, humbling, beautiful, majestic. Char-grilled, eight ounces of tenderloin—cooked rare (chef Chris Kimmel will butcher guests who ask for it cooked any other way)—accented with...
Feud-Mania

Feud-Mania

The dictionary defines a “feud” as a “long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans.” This includes vendettas, blood feuds, private wars and, if you ask me, street rumbles, gas station price wars and long-standing...