Dorchester Publications is among a fairly finite number of publishers who continue to print both original and older Western novels. In its latest series, “The Classic Film Collection,” the publisher will reissue four novels, one per month, that inspired great Western movies. The series begins with Alan LeMay’s The Searchers, available in bookstores now. The next book due out is Destry Rides Again, by Max Brand, which was filmed twice (once with James Stewart and once starring Audi
April 2009
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- The Adventures of a Wagon Train
- Cowboys in Combat
- Sacajawea (Children’s Book)
- No Need For A Gunfighter (Fiction)
- Arizona War (Fiction)
- Dreams Beneath Your Feet (Fiction)
- Hurd’s Crossing (Fiction)
- Blacks in East Texas History (Nonfiction)
- Rabbit Creek Country (Nonfiction)
- Staking Her Claim (Nonfiction)
- Horse Country (Nonfiction)
- Inkpaduta (Nonfiction)
- Princess Monahsetah, the Concealed Wife of General Custer. (Nonfiction)
- The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (Nonfiction)
- Movie Westerns Back in Print
- Hoppy Re-Upped
More In This Issue
- Nate Funmaker
- San Antonio, Texas
- Cow Camp Style
- Ups & Downs of Ranching Dream
- The Most Famous Rifle of the Old West
- Journey Through Spanish Missions Country
- Preservation: Galvanizing Galveston
- The Sinagua Sunwatchers
- They Ate What?
- Serpents – Lethal Enemies?
- Deadwood Dresses Up Auction
- Batter Up in Tombstone
- Did cowboys accurately shoot revolvers from horseback?
- I’ve been reading Elmer Kelton’s The Day the Cowboys Quit. What does he mean by the word “tawline?”
- Who was better at catching outlaws: the law officers or bounty hunters?
- What can you tell me about Indians who fought in the Civil War?
- What did the wagon trains do for toilet paper during those long trips across the country?
- What were the standard supplies on a chuckwagon?
- I am follicly challenged (ala Telly Savalas). Were there any bald-headed folks of note in the Old West?
- Ketchum Goes Out Alone
- The Road to Mangas
- The Lazy Person’s Guide to Oregon
- Wagon Train Rediscovers America
- Alaska’s Quiet Gold Rush
- Staycations & Vacations