A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! AUCTION Texas Art signature AuctionDallas, TX, October 18: Western art...
L.Q. Jones
The Western is a good genre if reasonably done. It’s a morality play, and it went along that way for 100 years. I contributed to its downfall...
Westerns Directed by Gordon Douglas
Doolins of Oklahoma (Columbia, 1949): The first of Douglas’s two movies with Randolph Scott is an okay attempt to tell the true story of...
The Auteur Who Walked the West
They’re the studio men, the directors who took assignments, working on Comedies, Westerns, Musicals and Horrors. They directed top stars, the...
Lights, Cameras, Charge!
Mention Western movie locations, and the first thought to come to mind is likely Monument Valley. Me? I think Lone Pine. And I don’t even like those...
Nevada’s Buckaroos, Bonanzas and Boomtowns
I’m standing in Mesquite, Nevada, with Max McCoy, historian, teacher, journalist, novelist, traveler and writer who knows how to turn a phrase....
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce’s was a life of remarkable contrasts. He was born in 1842 to the poverty of a Midwestern log cabin and a family of 13 children; he...
The Sundance Kid Rides Again — in New York City!
If you were a boy growing up watching Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s, you either wanted to be Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid after Paul Newman...
High Adventure in Big Sky Country
When Ulysses Pope abruptly walks away from his wife and sons in 1886 Minnesota, he leaves behind a cryptic note, and a family torn by doubt and...
Greed and Avarice on the California Frontier
Author David J. Langum Sr. focuses on the robust Western figure Mary Bennett Love in his book Quite Contrary: The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett...
The Imaginary Doc Holliday Revealed
Shirley Ayn Linder’s slim and concise Doc Holliday in Film and Literature is a refreshing and welcome addition to the voluminous but often dubious...
The Last Days of Custer
The Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer’s Last Stand, Gordon Harper’s exhaustive look at Custer’s Last Stand disagrees with...