by Candy Moulton & The Editors of True West | Jul 16, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
Museums from coast to coast celebrate our Western heritage for all generations. Museums across the country are expanding their collections and broadening the stories they tell as they continue to grow and reimagine their presentations. Stories of the land and how...
by Henry C. Parke | Jul 15, 2023 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies
Producer and actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Western movie icon Joel McCrea, is enthusiastic about acting in The Contested Plains, about a frontier family in 1874 Kansas. “The ‘Yellowstone Halo Effect’ is what we’re dealing with now, so you’ve got to take...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Jul 14, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
Just in time for great summer reading, Tom Clavin’s latest Western history, Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice (St. Martin’s Press, $29.99), has hit the bookstores and digital platforms for readers who love the Old West....
by Candy Moulton | Jul 14, 2023 | Renegade Roads, Travel & Preservation
Travel the Rocky Mountain West to discover the truth about the legendary mountain man. If he had to do it over, there’s a chance Hugh Glass would never have followed the Missouri River across South Dakota once, let alone returned. Since this is True West, I...
by Max Evans | Jul 14, 2023 | Classic True West, Features & Gunfights
The day Bill McDonald rode over the hill leading the Appaloosa, Slim and I were repairing the corrals. Slim was running Pete Coleman’s little ranch about three miles south of Cow Springs, New Mexico. I was just a snotty-nosed, freckle-faced kid at the time....