What are cowboy bib-front shirts? Allen Fossenkemper Fountain Hills, Arizona Bib-front shirts feature a row of buttons down each side to secure a...

What are cowboy bib-front shirts? Allen Fossenkemper Fountain Hills, Arizona Bib-front shirts feature a row of buttons down each side to secure a...
Why are so few Western novels based in Nevada? Paul Etzler Eureka, Nevada Great question, especially considering the wonderful history of that...
What famous Old West characters lived long enough to be filmed? Greg Travis Farmington, New York More than you might think. Movies portray the...
What is a “bushwhacker?” Doug Riley Phoenix, Arizona “Bushwhacker” was a Civil War term that designated the lowest and meanest type of guerrilla...
A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! AUCTION Texas Art signature AuctionDallas, TX, October 18: Western art...
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...
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...
They’re the studio men, the directors who took assignments, working on Comedies, Westerns, Musicals and Horrors. They directed top stars, the...
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...
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’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...
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...