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 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...
Award-winning author Irene Bennett Brown likes Kansas settings for her historical novels. Her young adult novel, Before the Lark, won a Western...
Max Evans’s final novel The King of Taos, a literary Western, and new biographies of outlaws Cherokee Bill and Willis Newton.
Western book publishing is experiencing a banner year in 2020 despite the pandemic.
Western novelists and historians keep the Old West alive through hard work and their dedication to the crafts of writing and research.
Matthew P. Mayo is the award-winning author of dozens of novels and nonfiction books about the West, including the recent multi-award-winning YA...
Historians and enthusiasts have long debated the existence of the correspondence between John Henry “Doc” Holliday and his first cousin Mattie. An...
Men trapped outside their times—it was the great theme of Sam Peckinpah’s best movies, and Brad Smith makes it his own in his first-rate novel, The...
Buckskin Frank Leslie is one of the great names in Old West history, but there’s been no full-length biography of the man—until now. Historians Jack...
State Historian of Texas Bill O’Neal’s latest book, John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King, explores the life and times of Chisum’s legendary role as a...
The last quarter of every publishing year brings a plethora of new Western history books into my mailbox. Here are some great books that I know True...
Historians, students, collectors and fans of Western American art will be in debt to William Reynolds for many decades after his publication of Joe...