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What History Has Taught Me: Bob Love

What History Has Taught Me: Bob Love

by | Jun 15, 2017 | Uncategorized

Raised in Detroit, Michigan, and retired from teaching at the American University in Washington, D.C., Bob Love found himself linked to the West’s most storied locale, Tombstone, Arizona, when his father, Harold, with other investors, purchased the O.K. Corral in...
Keeping Movies Alive

Keeping Movies Alive

by | Jun 9, 2017 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was among the first. Dr. Rennard Strickland found the movie poster for the 1962 John Ford classic, “Together for the First Time—James Stewart. John Wayne,” at the Tulsa Flea Market in Oklahoma some 40 years ago. “I had been thinking...
Lady Pinkertons

Lady Pinkertons

by | May 31, 2017 | Features & Gunfights

Her smile could be shy; her glance at times demure, but her ears never missed a secret. A master of disguises, she changed her accent at will, infiltrated social gatherings and collected information no man was able to obtain. She cried on command, yet was stoic while...
Slim Pickens

Slim Pickens

by | May 30, 2017 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies

Show me a magazine cover with a pretty girl, a baby or a dog…and I’ll show you a magazine that sells,” publishing legend William Randolph Hearst once said. For True West, our biggest draw is turning out to be a rodeo clown-turned-actor. The magazine posts quite...
Last of the Fast Guns

Last of the Fast Guns

by | May 23, 2017 | Features & Gunfights

Few would argue that names made a difference in the Old West. The easy-on-the-tongue alliteration of “Jesse James,” the rhythmic cadence of “Billy the Kid,” the romance conjured by monikers such as “Medicine Bill” and “Bear River Tom.” All gilded the image and lent...