On the Western Trail
Pack it up, round ’em up and drive north for an Old West adventure. Sherman, Texas, native S.H. Woods was 16 years old when he was “second boss—the horse rustler”—on a cattle drive in 1881. Although the drive had started along the Chisholm Trail in the Chickasaw...
Ringing the Bell
For the greater good of the state, two visionary women saved a school in Nome, North Dakota. This is a story about two North Dakota women on a shopping spree—not for school clothes, but for a school. “We’d already looked at other schools, but...
Bill Miner: The Saga of the Grey Fox
Ezra Allen Miner is a conundrum. Some say he was born in Onondaga, Michigan on December 27th, 1846, or maybe he was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Apparently, Miner didn’t like the name Ezra but he never bothered to change it legally, he just decided that henceforth...
A Land of Anomalies and Tamales
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...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
