Kit Carson and the Conquest of California
The true story of how the trailblazer became the spearpoint of empire All Images Courtesy True West Archives Unless Otherwise Noted Kit Carson wanted to settle down. “Dick Owens and I concluded that, as we had rambled enough,” he later recalled, “it would be advisable...
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...
True West July/August 2025
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