What the Brits are Doing for the West
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...
All the World’s a Stage on the Overland Trail
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...
Liquor, Cards and Guns
Saloons, with their gambling tables and faro layouts, lined the streets of Old West frontier towns. The predominantly male population had few entertainment choices in the booming gold and silver camps, and the towns at the end of the cattle trails and railroads. They...
Help Us Save Old Cowtown and Old Trail Town!
If the politicians have their way, two wonderful living history museums in the country could close very soon. As we go to press, I have received word that two of the West’s best “towns” are in danger of being destroyed: Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, and Old Cowtown...
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
