Stuart Rosebrook

Prescott

Editor at True West Magazine

Stuart Rosebrook, Ph.D. is a historian, editor and public speaker.

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Articles

The War Before the War

2 weeks ago | truewestmagazine.com | Stuart Rosebrook

They brought sin with them“He who is without sin can cast the first stone…” John 8:7As the sun rose across the United States on September 12, 1857, the winds of hate and chaos were swirling from coast to coast. In southwestern Utah, buzzards would have glided on the updrafts above the bloated, torn and twisted bodies of 120 or so Americans, who the day before were dreaming of a new life in California.
Western Books

2 weeks ago | truewestmagazine.com | Stuart Rosebrook

From the Lone Star West to San Juan HillThree new books on Texas, Davy Crockett and the Spanish-American War, plus a classic Western anthology on Mexico and a revealing new history of the Mexican cibolerosTexans like to take a lot of credit for creating the American West.
Play Ball! The Origins of Professional Baseball in Arizona

1 month ago | dcourier.com | Stuart Rosebrook

On Jan. 11, 1873, The Arizona Miner newspaper reported one of the first baseball games played in the Arizona Territory, a Christmas day game at Camp Grant: "In the forenoon, an exciting game of base ball [sic] took place.
Three for the Road

2 months ago | truewestmagazine.com | Stuart Rosebrook

The Bird Cage, the Butterfield and the BunchThe Gilded TheaterIn Old West history there are few cities as infamous as Tombstone, Arizona, and as few Western territorial buildings as iconic, famous or legendary as the Bird Cage Theater.
Best of the West 2025: Heritage Travel

Dec 19, 2024 | l8r.it | Stuart Rosebrook

Along blue highways to endless vistas, starry nights to warming sunrises, a trip across the American West—in winter, spring, summer or fall—is sure to inspire the traveler willing to leave the road most traveled for the unexpected experiences waiting beyond the horizon. Why does the West continue to inspire people? Is it the land, the culture, the work, the art, the literature, the mythology? I believe it is all of it wrapped into one, a sense of place that can’t be defined by borders or time.
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2025

Dec 19, 2024 | l8r.it | Stuart Rosebrook

I was raised in the suburbs of one of the nation’s most Western cities, Los Angeles, but I spent my summers learning to ride on a cattle ranch outside of Prescott, Arizona. Later, I began driving cross-country for college and since then have driven over 20,000 miles across our great country, leaving the interstates behind whenever I can.
Best of the West 2025: Western Books

Dec 18, 2024 | l8r.it | Stuart Rosebrook

In 2013, I received a call from my friend Allen Barra who said there was an opportunity at True West: Western Books editor. I thanked him and called Executive Editor Bob Boze Bell. The rest is history and ever since I have had the pleasure of managing the Western Books department for True West magazine. Pre-COVID, I was receiving well over 600 books a year for review.
Best of the West 2025: True Westerner Jay Dusard

Dec 17, 2024 | l8r.it | Stuart Rosebrook

Go West!True West’s editors’ favorites reflect the many wonderful facets that create the real and imagined West we all love and cherish. For two decades, True West magazine’s editors have celebrated their Western favorites. The men and women behind the Best of the West winners are the backbone of the Western United States and on the frontlines of keeping our heritage and culture alive for all of us to enjoy.
Walk Where They Walked

Oct 17, 2024 | truewestmagazine.com | Stuart Rosebrook

How do you get hooked on history at a young age—or at any age, for that matter? I’d say one of the best ways is to get out of the library and classroom and walk where history happened. For me it started in Jerome and Clarkdale, Arizona. My earliest memories of historic places are of the fabled mining town and its ghostly, nearly all empty buildings (we’re talking 1968 here!) and the ruins of the ancient Puebloan people of Tuzigoot, a national monument near the Verde River, below Jerome.
Wild & Free

Oct 15, 2024 | truewestmagazine.com | Stuart Rosebrook

1945-2024A whirlwind of ink and drama, Jana Bommersbach never blinked in the pursuit of a great story. Ever. She was an omnipotent presence in any room she entered. Her passion for writing, for truth, for justice—for the First Amendment—were guideposts that drove Jana forward every day. For five decades, Jana was an inspiration to her peers in journalism. She never backed down from a bully; she was a thorn in the side of every politician; and she was unwavering in her pursuit of a good story.