by True West Editors and Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 7, 2023 | Travel & Preservation
The Call of the West People from around the world are drawn to the Western United States. Whether as passengers on a Santa Fe Super Chief, a station wagon on Route 66 or a Boeing 707, tourists flooded the West in the 1950s. For the last 70 years, with...
by True West | Dec 7, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, Frontier Fare
Come and Get It! Historic Western-style restaurants, saloons and dinner shows keep the Old West alive. Across the West, from small towns to big cities, authentic, local, historic restaurants and saloons are working hard to offer the best in traditional, locally...
by Phil Spangenberger | Dec 7, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture
1894 Winchester: America’s Deer Rifle Considered one of the world’s best hunting rifles since its inception, it’s also been a favorite with cowboys and lawmen. Whenever riflemen make a list of classic hunting rifles, Winchester’s 1894 lever-action is sure to be at or...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 7, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
America’s icon still rides tall in the saddle. They call him cowboy, vaquero, buckaroo, waddy, paniolo, saddletramp, wrangler and drover. He is a loner and an owner. He’s a father and a mother. He’s a son and a daughter. He’s a rancher and a farmer. He’s a...
by Mark Boardman | Dec 1, 2023 | True West Blog
Texas Rangers go after rustlers in Mexico. November 20, 1875. Captain Leander McNelly leads a force of Texas Rangers into Mexico to retrieve more than 200 stolen cattle. Backed by US troops (who stayed on the Texas side of the Rio Grande), the Rangers get into a...