Welcome to the Cowboy Up Podcast
Where talk is all about the West
Dude rancher Russell True and cowboy Alan Day chat with historians, musicians, cowboy poets, authors, artists, curators, filmmakers and culinary experts and tell more than a few crazy cowboy stories during this entertaining and enlightening weekly podcast.
Winner of “Best Western Podcast” – Equus Film & Arts Festival

Dude rancher Russell True and cowboy H. Alan Day team up in Tucson, Arizona to talk all things Western. They’ll share adventures from the range, from the seat of a plane’s cockpit, from the back of a horse. (You may wonder how they lived to tell their tales!) And they’ll have a roundup of guests, Western writers, horse lovers, chuckwagon chefs, ranchers, nature lovers. It’s the West now and then.
Who did what and when in the Old West continues to tantalize historians, novelists, filmmakers and others. Bill Markley has spent more time than most delving into infamous events and characters and trying to sort fact from fiction. Did Butch Cassidy die in Bolivia? What about Davy Crockett’s many deaths? And what really happened during the Johnson County War? Bill joins Russell and Alan to take a trail ride into the West’s intriguing past.
