David Milch’s Western series, a once-in-a-generation event, ran on HBO for three seasons. Like the cable channel’s other prize-winning project, The Sopranos, Deadwood took great chances and broke boundaries, twisting genre conventions into new shapes, but without satire or malice. In a hypothetical room full of Westerns buffs, you would find as many passionate fans of Deadwood as there are angry detractors.
January/February 2009
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Buffalo Music
- Deep in the Heart of Trouble (Fiction)
- Aztec Fire (Fiction)
- Rio Grande Fall (Fiction)
- The Way of the West (Fiction)
- Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist (Nonfiction)
- Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West (Nonfiction)
- Towers of Gold (Nonfiction)
- Frontier Teachers (Nonfiction)
- From Guns to Gavels (Nonfiction)
- Fugitive Landscapes (Nonfiction)
- Equitrekking: Travel Adventures on Horseback (Nonfiction)
- Zombie Cowboys
- Deadwood: The Complete Series
- A No-Bull Kind of Guy
- Boots, Buckles & Spurs
- The Wild Wild West: The Complete TV Series
- The Ultimate Westerns Collection
- Excerpts from Escape Artist: The Life and Time of John Sturges
- Hopalong Cassidy
More In This Issue
- Lander, Wyoming
- Rodeo Dough
- In McClintock, a settler is referred to as a “cheechako.” What does that term mean?
- What can you tell me about Tombstone photographer C.S. Fly?
- Was segregation (or other forms of discrimination) commonly practiced in Old West saloons?
- Could you tell me when sabres were withdrawn from U.S. Cavalry Units?
- What was meant in the movie Fort Apache when Henry Fonda said he would “travel by shank’s mare?”
- How did saloon owners and faro dealers split the gambling profits?
- I read that Glenn Ford was the best rider in Westerns. What other movie stars excelled as horse riders?
- Can you tell me who painted the cowboy on horseback in the well known Colt pistol advertisement?
- Brenn Hill
- Riding the Reef
- Bianchi Celebrates
- Ike Bites Dust
- Preservation: The Fort that Wouldn’t Die
- Nevada Territory’s Best
- Pikes Peak or Bust Trail
- Honky-Tonk Days In Arizona
- Riding the Border… for Their Lives
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2009
- True West’s Best of the West 2009 Winners
- Medical Desperation
- Cowpuncher Rembrandt
- Election Report