When a trailer is posted on the Internet, keeping track of the views and “shares” is the perfect way for studios to judge which films will hit...or miss. Godzilla? No question. But another trailer has taken the web by storm; incredibly, it’s a Comedy Western. This formula was a staple in the movies, even in Buster Keaton’s 1927 masterpiece The General, but times have changed; any type of Western is a rare thing these days. Director Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West

July 2014
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- Finding Gold & Gunfights in Helena
- Gems Along the Continental Divide
- A Hunter’s Classic Returns
- The Killing of Bill Tilghman
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Uncle Wyatt’s Gun?
- Dalton Debacle
- The Gunfighters
- Bill O’Neal
- Was Jack Schaefer’s book Shane based on any real-life Old West characters?
- Were duster coats common outerwear on the frontier?
- True West’s Feb. 2014 issue states that Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp’s father was a common baker. Movies claim he was wealthy. Which is it?
- What is a medicine wheel?
- Was horse theft a capital offense during the Old West era?
- Where is Lincoln County War figure Bob Olinger buried?
- Spicing Up the Frontier
- Saving the Wall Street of the West
- Gold & Gambling
- Outlaw Joel Fowler
- A Million Ways to Laugh in the West
- Crusade for Justice on Minnesota Frontier
- Rough Drafts 7/14
- Carson’s Cannons Win the Day
- Frontier Photographers Reveal Our Past
- La Gente Nuevo of Spanish North America
- Debut Western Rides Hard Across Arizona Territory
- July 2014 Events