Dwight Yoakam and Kris Kristofferson are two singers who have played complete bastards in any number of movies. So the prospect of the two of them playing bad guys in a new Western is exciting. The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, set in 1910, is being described as a cross between Sam Peckinpah and Quentin Tarantino, which would also describe the movie Yoakam directed and acted in a few years ago, South of Heaven, West of Hell. The new movie is written by Country artist Ray Wylie Hubbard who pen

November/December 2008
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Oklahoma Rough Rider (Nonfiction)
- Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory (Nonfiction)
- The American Far West in the 20th Century (Nonfiction)
- The Long Knives are Crying (Fiction)
- Adelsverein: The Gathering (Fiction)
- Ride the Desperate Trail (Fiction)
- From a Distance (Fiction)
- Sagebrush and Paintbrush (Children’s Book)
- A Priest, a Prostitute & Some Other Early Texans (Nonfiction)
- Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Nonfiction)
- Kemo Sabe Unmasked
- Outlaw Trail Collection
- Stranger on Horseback
- Radio Westerns
- Creepy Bastards
- Sturges Biography
- A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
- Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
More In This Issue
- San Diego, California
- Worst Turkeys of the West
- Dashing Through the Snow
- A Good Enough Mine
- Retreat at the Homestead Ranch
- Paul Andrew Hutton
- History, Not For Sale
- Preservation: Hold the Fort
- That Cowboy Stench
- Centennial Winchester Sells High
- Following the Wild Bunch
- Sheriff’s Sale
- Gloomy Blumy’s Beautiful World