Tombstone: A Reckoning
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...
Big Sky Dreaming
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....
On the Trail of Charlie Russell
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...
What History Has Taught Me with Bradley G. Courtney
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...
True West September/October 2025
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