The spoiled first three sons—Richard Widmark, Hugh O’Brian and Earl Holliman—
of Spencer Tracy’s cattleman character can’t abide their half-breed, half-brother Robert Wagner, or their Cheyenne stepmother played by Katy Jurado, in this fascinating family drama that won writer Philip Yordan an Oscar. Cinematographer Joe MacDonald made unforgettably beautiful use of Technicolor and Cinemascope in this 1954 Western, and Edward Dmytryk directed the seething passions with panache. The relea

September 2016
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Lost in the Wilderness
- Marshal Harvey Whitehill
- Crossroads of the West
- Fred Harvey Days
- Ghosts Going Gangbusters?
- John Hance, Grand Canyon’s Windjammer
- The Slopers
- My family connections include John Wesley Hardin and Clay Allison, both of whom had Tennessee ancestors. Did the outlaws ever meet?
- Big Wheel on the River
- Hot Times in Hillside Boom Towns
- Tombstone Jackpot
- Unsung Hero?
- A Western Life Well Lived
- The Loomis Gang
- Broken Lance
- Burt Alvord’s Train Robbing Posse
- Can a person ride his horse to death?
- The Fix
- Big Jim French
- A Barn Worth Saving
- Tom Horn, Roper Extraordinaire
- The Shoot Out in Holbrook
- A Defiant Outlaw-Hero Ballad
Departments
- Did American Indians have some version of bathrooms or latrines?
- What History Has Taught Me
- Eating Out
- On the Trail of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company
- What is the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Wyoming?
- Western Events for September 2016
- Did the Wild West era have any famous deaf people?
- The Shoots Far Gun
- Jesse James Tastes Blood
- What can you tell me about Jack Slade’s wife?