True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Desert Southwest
Travelers to the American Southwest will quickly discover the beauty and diversity of its geography, cultures, heritage-rich small towns and large, modern cities, out-of-the-way historic sites, and blue highways crisscrossing expansive vistas. When planning a trip in...
What’s in a Name: Old West Style
icknames among the Old West characters developed almost to an art form and just hearing them conjures up picturesque images. For example among such charming specimens of Eve’s flesh were Crazy Horse Lil, The Dancing Heifer, The Galloping Cow, The Little Lost Chicken...
The Meticulous Rebirth of Old West Guns
No two firearms in Old West history stand out more than the Colt Single Action Army and the Winchester lever action rifle. These were the quintessential tools of what our generation remembers as the guns that tamed the Wild West in movies and literature. Many firearms...
Bold and Lethal
When does a boy become a man? The age-old question regenerates itself when a proud, but tired, young mother places a gentle kiss on the cheek of her wailing newborn son and prays silently that life will treat him kindly. She envisions her baby will grow into a virile...
True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows
Western Books & Movies
