What History Has Taught Me: Red Steagall
Red Steagall is a musician, poet and actor who shares stories of the American West. His performances include a White House party for President Ronald Reagan and overseas tours to the Middle East, the Far East and South America. He became the first cowboy poet to be...
The Father of Montana
Granville Stuart, who died 100 years ago this October, is one of the most remarkable men in the history of the West. Born in what’s now West Virginia in 1834, Granville moved with his family to Iowa four years later. In 1852, he accompanied his father and brother,...
A Bad Bad Man
Scott Martin has been cautiously optimistic about the future of Western films: “Until this resurgence, there hasn’t been the appetite for them. But we’re talking about doing them again—and I can’t wait!” At last year’s American Film Market, he shared his belief that...
Cap Mossman: Boss of the Hashknife
Mossman’s life reads like something out of a Louis L’Amour western. The son of a Civil War hero, he was a descendant of the Scots-Irish, that adventurous, hell-for-leather breed who carved out a niche of history on the American frontier a century earlier....
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
