Cowboys and Monsters

Decades before Cowboys & Aliens moviegoers watched Billy the Kid vs. Dracula and Haunted Gold, before they saw Daniel Craig take on the Martians, cowboys have fought dinosaurs, ghosts, demons, vampires and even Frankenstein’s daughter. Since the advent of sound, Western movie producers have been looking for ways to goose their cowboy sagas, and they have often looked to Horror and Science Fiction plot twists to do it. The history of these odd films stretches from early sound serials