by TW Editors | Jan 1, 2007 | Travel & Preservation
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...
by Meghan Saar | Jan 1, 2007 | Art, Guns and Culture
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...
by Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza | Jan 1, 2007 | Western Books
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...
by Frederick Nolan | Jan 1, 2007 | Features & Gunfights
As any reader of True West knows, interest in the Old West is worldwide—people love reading about the Earps and Custer, Billy the Kid and Geronimo just as much in exotic foreign climes as they do in the American West. Over the years, though, the most prolific output...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Nov 1, 2006 | Travel & Preservation
Then the rattling of the coach, the clatter of our six horses’ hoofs, and the driver’s crisp commands, awoke to a louder and stronger emphasis; and we went sweeping down on the station at our smartest speed.” What better way to travel a Renegade Road than with Mark...