In the mid-1800s, the California Gold Rush ignited the burning quest for gold that drove men to race into the rugged, fr…
Tag: Western
The Searchers Merits of the film and the facts behind it.
A question came in recently from a True West reader about the premise of Alan Le May’s great novel, The Searchers, the s…
Wranglers are Seldom Shown or Mentioned in Westerns. Did the Cowboys Take Turns at that or was it a Full-time Job during a Cattle Drive?
Wranglers are seldom shown or mentioned in Westerns. Did the cowboys take turns at that or was it a full-time job during…
Morgan Woodward The villain Matt Dillon couldn’t stop killin’.
Actor Morgan Woodward is known for many things, most of them unpleasant: he’s so good at playing bad that, “although it …
Rails West … And East! Rediscover America along the historic route of the transcontinental railroad in honor of the 150th anniversary of its epic construction.
“It is done!” These three words shot out across the Western telegraph to the world on May 10, 1869, at the moment Centra…
Dark and Bloody Ground An exoneration of Lt. George Bascom, and new histories about the Sooner boomers, stock and range detectives, a classic Western novel and how trauma and violence shaped the Pleasant Valley War.
With nearly 300 years of history to investigate the Apache-Spanish-Mexican-American conflict, many historians choose to …
Did Frontier Saloons Serve Cold Beer?
Did frontier saloons serve cold beer? Sandy Davis St. Paul, Minnesota Ice making machines began popping up in desert tow…
Cherokee Stories Review of Robert Conley's Plastic Indian: A Collection of Stories and Other Writings.
When Robert J. Conley died in 2014, the Cherokee Nation and Western literature lost a tremendous voice. Evelyn Conley, h…
Max Evans in Hollywood At 93 years old, the award-winning New Mexico author is reflective on the movie business, actors, directors, and his legendary friendship with Sam Peckinpah.
“Ol’ Tony Hillerman told me one time, ‘Max, you know, if you option a novel, you’ve got to hope they don’t make th…
Dead Men Tell Tales A web series aimed at the younger generation gets transformed into a movie.
Walmart shoppers grabbing a DVD of the new Vision Films Western Dead Men, directed by Royston Innes, starring Ric Maddox…