Get Western!
I remember seeing my Wyoming-raised father quietly touching his hand to the brim of his cowboy hat, or tipping it in a polite gesture when meeting a man or woman in our travels. I always thought this was such a gentlemanly way of saying hello, and I enjoyed seeing...
Rascals of Tombstone: Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne
After running away from the gunfight in the vacant lot near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ike Clanton made a desperate attempt to get the Earp’s and Doc Holliday charged with murder. His twisted, self-righteous testimony, laden with errors tripped him up at the Spicer...
Hawaiian Cowboys
What is the American West and where does it begin and end?” These questions have been debated consistently for well over a century, but after anyone reads David Wolman and Julian Smith’s Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden...
A Collector Like No Other
Of course, he’d become one of the frontier’s most ardent historians and collectors because history called early to Doug McChristian. He’d always been a reader because his grandmother was the county librarian and his mother was a teacher—besides, his dad read those...
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
