True West: An Illustrated Guide to the Heyday of the Western

Return with us to yesteryear, when cowboys were cowboys and gunslingers lurked around every corner. Today that colorful period continues to resonate in the collective imagination of red-blooded Americans every-where - and now we have
True West , which illustrates, in hundreds of full-color illustrations, how America’s mass media stamped that vision so indelibly on our collective unconscious over the past century, into today.Boasting hundreds of rare and colorful movie posters, pulp magazines, comic books, comic strips, television memorabilia, advertisements, paperback books, record album jackets, toys, and clothing,
True West
covers such hugely popular television series as Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, and Bonanza, along with classic western novels, including
Shane ,
The Searchers ,
Welcome to Hard Times , and that epic of all epics,
Lonesome Dove . It also bows to the icons who ruled the silver screen - Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood, to name a few.And what would the Wild West be without an accompanying soundtrack?
True West
reproduces the sublime album covers and sheet music that served up classic odes like
Streets of Laredo
and
Cool Water,
narrative ballads like
El Paso
(with Marty Robbins bedecked in his black gunfighter togs on the cover!), and
High Noon.