Pack your bags and saddle up. Adventures await across the American West. Twenty years ago True West magazine launched its annual travel issue, and...
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What Event Marked the End of the Old West?
What event marked the end of the Old West? That's hard to say precisely because the Old West covered hundreds of square miles....
Capturing Protectors Of Peace
Rare shots of Old West lawmen with firearms—and without.
Heroes and Villains, Sinners and Saints
For 20 years at True West, Bob Boze Bell’s art and illustrations have inspired and challenged our understanding of Western American history.
Studying History is One Thing; Walking History is Another
The West’s original emigrants will never be forgotten.
A New Chapter Has Begun
Saying goodbye to the True West World Headquarters.
Cowboy Cuisine
In the cow towns at the end of the trail, cowboys left the beans and biscuits in camp and dined like city slickers.
Kit Carson’s War And Peace
Doug Hocking’s latest Southwestern history Terror on the Santa Fe Trail, plus new histories on the Spanish and Mexican Southwest, the Lakota people and a Western tale of Old Arizona.
Alpine, Texas
Texas’s Big Bend town is a rich crossroads of Western heritage.
Western Roundup: May 2020
Birding Festivals, Heritage Festivals, Railroads, Rodeos, Stock Shows, Trade Shows and more!
Living, Loving and Dying in the West
Ask The Marshall
What History Has Taught Me: Red Shuttleworth
Poet, playwright, and writer.