Wild & Free
The One and Only Jana Bommersbach 1945-2024 A whirlwind of ink and drama, Jana Bommersbach never blinked in the pursuit of a great story. Ever. She was an omnipotent presence in any room she entered. Her passion for writing, for truth, for justice—for the First...
What History Has Taught Me: Tom Kramer
Tom Kramer Tom Kramer was born and raised in Missouri but headed west to Hollywood at age 19. He is a three-time Emmy nominee and Writers Guild of America Award-winner on television shows that include Candid Camera (head writer) and HBO’s Curb Your...
Little Joe, Boot Hill and Doc Holliday
Are Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers really buried where the markers are placed at Tombstone’s Boothill Graveyard? James Carroll (San Antonio, Texas) Boothill Graveyard became Tombstone’s final resting place in 1878 and lasted until 1884 when the new cemetery...
Wyatt Earp at 30
Screenwriter Dan Gordon reveals the real story behind the making of the blockbuster biopic. When it comes to the events in Tombstone on October 26, 1881, if any question is more open to debate than whether the Earps or the Clantons were the villains, it is the...
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
