The Railroad Comes to Holbrook
Holbrook, Arizona, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado rivers and straddling the new Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, was soon to become one of the wildest cow towns in the West. Before the railroad arrived in1881, Holbrook was known as...
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Movies
The one notable theme that has emerged from this year’s short list of Westerns is the tale of the aging tough guy or, less sentimentally, the “Geezer Redemption Story.” The aging screen cowboy is not a new phenomenon. Yet for years, he was treated with far too little...
True West Best of the West 2018 Western Books
In 2013, I started managing and writing the “Western Books” column for True West. In those five years, I have received between 400 and 600 books a year from a broad swath of American and international publishers and authors. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography...
True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Southern Prairie and Plains
The Southern Prairie and Plains states should be considered the gateway states to the West. From the lesser-known trails to Texas and Oklahoma from Louisiana and Arkansas to the great epicenters of national trail history in St. Louis, Independence and St. Joseph,...
True West March/April 2025
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