Howard Bryan (1920-2011)
Howard Bryan, veteran newspaperman and author of popular books about Old West history, figured he interviewed about 100 Southwest pioneers within 10 years or so after arriving in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1948. Most of the pioneers were at least 85 when Bryan met...
A Wild Time at Wildy Well
July 12, 1898 A t around 4 a.m., Doña Ana County Sheriff Pat Garrett and his posse are trying to sneak up on murder suspects Oliver Lee and Jim Gililland at Lee’s Wildy Well Ranch, east of the Jarilla Mountains in New Mexico. Lee and Gililland are wanted for the...
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...
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
