War and Peace
Linda Wommack’s new history of Colorado’s Indian Wars, a collection of essays on the Silver State, a tale of a Cheyenne hero, a classic Western from Michael Zimmer and a Biblical tale of the Old West. American historians over the past half-century have grappled with...
Wagons Ho!
True West’s historians reveal the real history behind Taylor Sheridan’s 1883. Hollywood producers, directors and writers have often attempted to re-create the grandiosity and pageantry of an epic period in history on the silver screen and television. From...
A Place of Wonder, A Time of Turmoil
A dynamic history of the creation of Yellowstone, a new gunfighter debate, a fresh interpretation of Western women and family, a Great Plains adventure and Patrick Dearen’s latest novel. Megan Kate Nelson’s Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and...
Out West and Down Under
Quigley Down Under challenged the status quo of Western filmmaking in 1990, and it continues to inspire three decades later. Thirty years ago, Dances with Wolves was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and was awarded 10 Oscars. The film’s star, Kevin Costner, earned...
True West January/February 2025
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