by | Aug 23, 2023 | True West Blog
Arizonans like to call this place a land of anomalies and tamales because of the contrasts and contradictions that make the Grand Canyon State unique. For example, it’s not uncommon for the state to have the nation’s hottest and coldest temperatures on the...
by TW Editors | Aug 20, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
Thirty years after the popular film’s release, it might be the most influential Western of all time. In 1993, Walt Disney’s Hollywood Pictures green-lighted the biggest Western film the conservative motion picture company had ever produced. Unforeseen by...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Aug 19, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
Thomas Minckler’s masterpiece, plus a biography of Patton, a Western love story, a guide to guns and a grand collection of Western short stories. Every year I receive a handful of books that should be considered objects of art as much as they are books. Thomas E....
by Candy Moulton | Aug 19, 2023 | Renegade Roads, Travel & Preservation
Travel across Montana and discover the state through the life and art of the cowboy artist. Charles M. Russell was 16 when he first arrived in the Judith Basin of Montana in 1880 and found work on a sheep ranch. He visited family in Missouri and Illinois in the winter...
by True West | Aug 18, 2023 | True Westerners, What History Has Taught Me
Historian and Educator Bradley G. Courtney, Prescott, Arizona’s “Whiskey Row Historian,” has written books and articles, and has lectured extensively on the history of that town’s famously infamous stretch of saloons that started forming in 1864. He learned in 2011...