True West’s Best of the West 2007 Winners

True West’s Best of the West 2007 Winners

Here are the winners of our “2007 Best of the West.” Sit back and see if your pick made the list.   Best Living Bootmaker Paul Bond The year 2006 marked Paul Bond’s 60th year in the bootmaking business. Before that, he rodeoed in the 1930s and ’40s. Before...
The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men

The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men

Hollywood director Fritz Lang once remarked that Cinemascope was only good for snakes and funerals. Perhaps today he would have included snakes on a plane, but at the time he could have just as easily included cattle drives, since the best thing about Raoul Walsh’s...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2007

Top 10 True Western Towns of 2007

Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will encourage federal, state and local governments to continue funding such efforts, as well as alert some Western towns to the duty of rewarding its citizens and...
Range Story Tops Rare Book Sale

Range Story Tops Rare Book Sale

Forget the “blood and thunder” pulps, most readers appreciate a true-to-life range story.  At least that’s what antiquarian bookseller Dudley Richard Dobie, Sr. wrote in a Dallas Times Herald article, “Cattle and Horses, and the Men Who Live with Them.” His words...
Dream Wheels

Dream Wheels

This is a gutsy contemporary Western about two devastated young men. Joe Willie is a cowboy broken mentally and physically after a bull riding accident. Aiden is an inner-city tough guy destined for a short and violent life. This story includes prison stints and...