Readers will enjoy author Max Evans’s insightful views of life, nature and writing the tragic comedy in Building Your Western Library. As the new...

What did U.S. lawmen think of the North West Mounted Police?
What did U.S. lawmen think of the North West Mounted Police? John Red Beaumont, Alberta, Canada That relationship is pretty hard to get a handle on....

How did Hollywood create those resonant gunshot sounds in 1940s and 1950s B-Westerns?
How did Hollywood create those resonant gunshot sounds in 1940s and 1950s B-Westerns? Rick Miller Harker Heights, Texas Our gun and Western film...

When a famous gunfighter came to town, would most folks have recognized him?
When a famous gunfighter came to town, would most folks have recognized him? Tom Smith, Mitchellville, Iowa He probably would have gotten a look...

Western Horizons
Anthony Mann and James Stewart’s directorial collaborations, beginning with Winchester ’73, are usually considered the ultimate of Universal...

Opening Shot Dissected…
Regarding the July 2013 Opening Shot of Pat Garrett and crew sitting on the dock: This building is new, the corners of the adobe have not rounded...

The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
On Christmas Eve in 1986, Clayton Moore flew into Houston, Texas, and discovered his luggage was lost, an unfortunate, but rather commonplace, event...

The Pies Have It
It’s the night before the annual pie festival in the aptly named Pie Town, New Mexico, and Michael Rawl is still inside the Good Pie Café, chatting...

Long Road Home for Buffalo Bill Indian
In 1898, Albert Afraid of Hawk had the opportunity of a lifetime. He was hired as a performer with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West, heady stuff for an...

Butter Me Up
"Mother said to father, while on the train and looking at the herds of cattle through the window: ‘We can be sure of one item of food and that is...

Who is Alice Paul?
Joan Anderson Meacham remembers being “so irritated and angry.” In 1979, the educated, 44 year old serving on the Advisory Committee on the Status...

The Final Camel Charge
April 7, 1859 After months on the trail from California’s Fort Tejon, Samuel Bishop and 23 volunteers mount 20 camels and a couple mules at one in...