True West - June 2021

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The Great Chiefs: How Their Courage Shaped a Nation

PLUS:
Lonesome Dove: The Legacy of Larry McMurtry and His Greatest Novel
by Johnny D. Boggs

Ambushed on the Pecos: Oliver Loving’s Epic Battle With the Comanche
by Frederick W. Nolan

Rediscover the West on Our Favorite Historic Highways

The Great Chiefs- THEIR COURAGE SHAPED A NATION.

Resting here until day breaks And shadows fall And darkness disappears Is Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches. —Epitaph on Quanah Parker’s gravestone

10+ mins

Little Bighorn Memorial

A VISION REALIZED ON THE 145TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE

5 mins

REMEMBERING LARRY MCMURTRY

The life and times of the legendary Western writer and the legacy of Lonesome Dove.

7 mins

Is Doc Holliday in This Photo, Or Not?

AN OLD PHOTO IS REEXAMINED BY THE WORLD’S TOP DOC HOLLIDAY EXPERT.

5 mins

The Hero or Goat of Beecher Island?

The legacy of Gen. George Forsyth’s leadership in the famous battle remains controversial over 150 years later.

7 mins

AMBUSHED ON THE PECOS - THE COURAGEOUS LIFE AND DEATH OF OLIVER LOVING.

In 1867, beneath a bluff a few miles from Carlsbad, New Mexico, two Texas cattlemen—one of them a trail-hardened 52-year-old, the other a 23-year-old roughneck—were fighting for their lives, surrounded by a marauding party of Comanches. If recorded at all, such an event would have been no more than a blip on the historical calendar of the American West, but this one—and its aftermath—turned out to be one of the most amazing examples of courage, loyalty and sheer grit in all the annals of the frontier.

10+ mins

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TRUE WEST captures the history of the American frontier through authentic and provocative literary nonfiction and heritage travel narratives that keep the spirit of the West alive.