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''True West Magazine'' (alternate title: ''True West'') is an American magazine that covers the icons like Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, and Jesse James and relates American Old West history back to the present day to show the role contemporary Western heritage plays in keeping the spirit of the Old West alive today. Started in 1953, ''True West'' is headquartered in Cave Creek, Arizona, and publishes monthly. It is the world's oldest, continuously-published Western American magazine. ''True West'' observed its 60th anniversary in 2013, having offered past coverage in ''Blasts from the Past'', beginning in its January 2013 issue. ==History== ''True West'' began publication in 1953 under founder Joe Small of Austin, Texas. The idea for ''True West'' originated from a monthly feature in Small's first publication, ''Sporting Magazine''. The magazine's recurring "Bad Man" article, about outlaws of the West, was the feature that generated the most reader mail and interest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The First Sixty Years of True West Magazine )〕 ''True West'' was born to satisfy the readers' hunger for Old West history. ''True West'' was the largest Western magazine on the market in the 1960s, selling hundreds of thousands of copies monthly at newsstands. The magazine benefited from an era featuring popular television western series such as ''Bonanza'', ''The Lone Ranger'', and ''Gunsmoke''. At least one episode, "The Hunted" (1958), of the ABC/Warner Brothers series ''Sugarfoot'' is based on a ''True West'' article. Fans interested in the lives of real cowboys and cowgirls found those stories in ''True West.'' After that, the early era of television westerns faded during the time of the Vietnam War and disco music. In 1979, Small sold the magazine to Chet Krause of Iola, Wisconsin. Small stayed on as publisher, with Krause as assistant publisher. The magazine saw a few moves — to Perkins, Oklahoma, then Stillwater — before the 1999 move to Cave Creek, Arizona. Among its new owners was Bob Boze Bell, who first discovered the magazine as a nine-year-old at Desert Drugs in Kingman, Arizona. The publication sparked a lifelong interest in the Old West. As the January 2000 issue was being edited, Bell flew to Stillwater to design the cover because he, "wanted to own the millennium." Bell felt the magazine needed to change with the times or it would not survive. One of the first changes he made was switching the magazine from pulp paper to gloss, as ''True West'' was one of the last remaining publications using pulp. He also expanded the coverage of Western movies, since so many people developed a love of Old West history after being exposed to Westerns on television or the big screen. He added, and still writes, the successful "Classic Gunfights" department that has featured more than one hundred gunfights of the Old West.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Classic Gunfights )〕 In 2007, Ken Amorosano joined the team as associate publisher. In 2011, he became ''True West's'' publisher and set the magazine in a new direction, catering the publication more toward its core history aficionados and expanding the magazine's readership globally. To put forth their vision, Bell and Amorosano rely on a quality editorial and production team headed by editor-in-chief Meghan Saar, art director Daniel Harshberger, production manager Robert Ray, and general manager Carol Compton Glenn. The magazine has continued to change with the times. Readers mingle on ''True West's'' regularly updated social network feeds: Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter. Since 2012, the magazine's covers have featured a QR Code, for smartphone users to access videos about the cover stories. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「True West Magazine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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