Two new books about the rise of Los Angeles and Hollywood, plus an overlooked story of slavery in Nebraska, a Western detective novel, the real and...
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What History Has Taught Me: Melody Groves
Melody Groves, Author and Historian Melody Groves deeply loves the Southwest. As a native New Mexican, she explores ghost towns, rides horses and...
Saddle Up with a Western
Old West fiction and nonfiction are the perfect genres to fill your summer reading list. Every season is a good season to read, but summer is when...
Grit and Grace
Across the past 150 years of Western American history scholarship, dozens of authors have been inspired to research and write about mining in the...
Best of the West: Western Books
The Wild, Wild West Western writers—and True West’s editors—are fighting hard to keep the genre alive. If you love to read about the...
The Tenacity of the West—and the Western
A year ago, I asked the question: “Will the Western survive?” I was concerned, and rightfully so, with the anti-Western sentiment of many if not...
Voice of the West
A remembrance of Larry McMurtry, a new history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a wild Western tale, Apache boarding schools and a new collection...
What History Has Taught Me with Leo W. Banks
LEO W. BANKS, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR After an award-winning career in journalism, Leo W. Banks turned to fiction. His first novel, Double Wide, won...
Big Sky Dreaming
Thomas Minckler’s masterpiece, plus a biography of Patton, a Western love story, a guide to guns and a grand collection of Western short stories....
What History Has Taught Me with Bradley G. Courtney
Historian and Educator Bradley G. Courtney, Prescott, Arizona’s “Whiskey Row Historian,” has written books and articles, and has lectured...
What History Has Taught Me with Max McCoy
Max McCoy is a Spur Award-winning author and executive director of the Western Writers of America. Max McCoy is a Spur Award-winning author and...
What History Has Taught Me with Mike Cox
Journalist, Author, Historian Mike Cox is the author of more than 40 nonfiction books—including five on the Texas Rangers. In 2022 he was listed in...