Out West and Down Under
Quigley Down Under challenged the status quo of Western filmmaking in 1990, and it continues to inspire three decades later. Thirty years ago, Dances with Wolves was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and was awarded 10 Oscars. The film’s star, Kevin Costner, earned...
Could the Rancher and the Farmer be Friends?
Many westerns movies base their story line on ranch wars or ranchers wanting to get rid of nesters squatting on their grazing lands. Did these kinds of affairs really happen? Jim McGrath, Springfield, MO Yes, they really did! Remember the Broadway Play and 1955 film...
Was Wyatt Earp Really a Deputy U.S. Marshal?
Wyatt Earp, who has become controversial since his fictionalization by television, did serve in both Dodge City and Tombstone as a legally appointed deputy marshal. True West presents the proof with these findings of a revealing probe into government records and the...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2021
Standing Tall Despite the pandemic, American Western towns remain strong and determined to be better than ever in 2021. It’s reassuring to know that True Western Towns endure through the worst calamities. It happened more than a century ago during the Spanish Flu...
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
