Stuart Rosebrook News Today

The Sharlot Hall Museum is proud to announce the appointment of Stuart Rosebrook, Ph.D., as its new executive director. Rosebrook will begin his new position on July 1. With an

After going through hundreds of Native American history books, we have gathered books reframing all the historical events in compelling ways.

Adventures await along the West’s byways and highways to history.

Jerry Enzler’s new biography of Jim Bridger, and new histories of Lewis and Clark, the grand masters of Western art, war on the central plains and Max McCoy’s latest Western.

A Yankee prospector’s scrapbook of his summer in Nome reveals the hardships of the Arctic gold rush.

A new history of railroad women and new biographies of John Wesley Hardin, Texas Jack, military wives in Arizona, plus an introspective look at the tragedy of Indian massacres.

True West Magazine 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   On March 4, 1905, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade. With him in the parade of 35,000 were five other Indian leaders: Geronimo, Little Plume, American Horse, Hollow Horn Bear and Buckskin Charlie...

True West Magazine The summer of 2021 is a great time to travel across these Old West highways. The West is a grand place to travel, and its many highways and back-country roads are a great way to enjoy its natural wonders, monuments and parks, historic towns and destination getaways. Since last year’s national pandemic shutdown, our hospitality, museum and tourism travel partners across the West have been eagerly awaiting the return of travelers. We believe the summer of 2021 is a wonderful ...

True West Magazine The latest biography of Daniel Boone, plus new bios of Doc Holliday and Buffalo Bill, and histories of the Chiricahuas and California good-time girls.  Bob Drury and Tom Clavin make an excellent writing team and have found success in recent years with their creative collaboration, including their best seller The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (2013). Most recently they have tackled together the American Revolution with Valley...

True West Magazine Jim Hoy’s highly personal biography of the Kansas Flint Hills, two new biographies of Butch Cassidy, Bill Neal’s autobiography and Deborah Swenson’s debut Western novel. From my earliest years, I remember my parents sharing with me their love of the American West and their app-reciation and knowledge of the West’s writers, artists, educators and filmmakers. I discovered quickly that I could travel great distances from North Hollywood, California, across the West throu...