Our Favorite Western Music of 2011
True West editors pick their favorite Western music. DON EDWARDSThe Western Music Association (WMA) honored the great Don Edwards with the Best Traditional Western album for American. He includes some cowboy classics like “The Last Cowboy Song” and “The Campfire has...
The TopTen Must-Have Books On Arizona History
Your must-have books on Arizona history! 1. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes Written by the wife of an Army officer stationed in Arizona from 1874-78, Vanished Arizona provides a clear picture of life on the...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2012
True West Magazine’s annual award given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts and to sharing their town’s historical relevance to our nation. 10. GRAPEVINE, TX “We’ve got two gunfighters. Y’all want to buy them?” Mayor William D....
The Outrageous History of Arizona
This place has always been majestic, awe-inspiring and dangerous. The people who came here, and continue to arrive, are strivers, connivers and survivors. What follows are some of the outrageous characters who made Arizona what it is today. What If They’d Had a 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
