Tracking the Texas Rangers
You’re Riding Shotgun With… David George, who orchestrated the turnaround of the Buckhorn Saloon & Museum in San Antonio, further enhancing this historic museum with a new addition, the Texas Ranger Museum. The Ranger museum houses hundreds of Ranger...
Cowboys & Cowtowns
You’re Riding Shotgun With… Orin Friesen, whose passions are the Chisholm Trail, Texas Longhorn cattle, the Pony Express and Kansas history. A serious student of history for more than 50 years, Friesen is the operations manager of the Prairie Rose...
Hardin’s Deadly Tools
We’ve long held a fascination for the gunmen of the Wild West, and firearms enthusiasts have been especially interested in the hardware used by them. Unlike most Wild West gunmen, who left behind scarce detailed accounts of the guns they had used during their...
Our Favorite Reads of 2011
True West editors weigh in on our favorite reads. BIOGRAPHIES THE KILLING OF CRAZY HORSEBy Thomas Powers (Knopf/Vintage)The shadowy warrior of the Sioux Wars of the 1860s and ’70s is redefined in this gripping narrative that tackles both the mythology and...
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
