by True West | Apr 23, 2024 | True West Blog
Visit the website at SouthwestMT.com A visit to Southwest Montana is more than just a trip—it’s a chance to explore the state’s robust history and vibrant landscape. Here are five things you absolutely shouldn’t miss in the extraordinary space between...
by True West Editors and Stuart Rosebrook | Apr 17, 2024 | Features & Gunfights
Summertime is the perfect season to enjoy a travel adventure across the Western United States. Every state has well-publicized scenic highways that lead to wonderful historic towns, which are perfect places to hang your hat and stay awhile. From Great Falls,...
by Peter Corbett | Apr 17, 2024 | Travel & Preservation, True Western Towns
When you dig deep into Jerome’s history you find so many layers—so many stories of boom and bust, of bordellos, opium dens, gambling and bootleg liquor, labor strife and striking miners deported from town on cattle cars. At the tail end of the 19th century,...
by Henry C. Parke | Apr 17, 2024 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies
For a century, slave-turned-Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was legendary among history buffs, but with the general public, he couldn’t get arrested. That changed in 2006, when historian Art T. Burton published his biography of Reeves: Black Gun, Silver Star. Then...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Apr 17, 2024 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
On Saturday morning, March 9, 2024, the sun rose over Tucson, Arizona, after two days of overcast skies and rain. Fifteen years since the first Tucson Book Festival was held on the University of Arizona Mall, the book fest is one of the largest and best attended in...