Hollywood brought the Sooner State to Arizona. When Hollywood decided to make a movie of the Broadway play “Oklahoma” they couldn’t find a location...
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Dude Spotting
It’s harder to spot real cowboys than you might think. In my experience, nobody looks at a photograph of a welder and says, “That’s not a...
The Classic Chase
Chasing a stagecoach was mostly the stuff of Hollywood because it added more drama to the event. A well-conditioned horse could run, at most two to...
Journey to Lone Pine
The iconic Western film location is celebrated every year at the internationally famous Lone Pine Film Festival. Among the hundreds of long-running...
Aimee Semple McPherson
Arizona played a part in one of the great hoaxes of the 1920s when Aimee Semple McPherson, a popular Hollywood show business evangelist, was...
My Top Ten Favorite Movie Moments
True West’s Firearms Editor applauds authenticity. Western movies are made for entertainment, and we must consider them strictly as such, and not as...
Mr. Authenticity
Many fans of Westerns, especially the True West maniacs, are guilty of picking them apart for the anachronisms all too often found in such...
“I’m Your Huckleberry” Has a Double Meaning for Old Tucson
Saving the old girl is more than a dream. Everyone wants to save “Hollywood in the Desert”—the Old Tucson Studios that hosted more than 400 films...
Earl Holliman
One of Hollywood’s finest gentlemen of the silver screen recalls his early career in Westerns.
Western Movies Special: Rebel Raider to Rebel Hero
How Jesse James became one of Hollywood’s favorite outlaws.
Hollywood Jails and the Real Deal
Hollywood movie sets were built pretty similar. They always had a window in back because the script called for a crony to slip them a pistol or...