Articles
Something Big

Something Big

Imagine charming outlaw Dean Martin kidnapping gorgeous Honor Blackman in a battle of the sexes that includes low comedy, fights (gun, fist and...

read more
Honoring Elmore

Honoring Elmore

The success of FX’s Justified, created by Graham Yost from Elmore Leonard’s short story “Fire in the Hole,” is by now as familiar as Raylan Given’s...

read more
The Irish Influence

The Irish Influence

"Reader, when at the big hotels, call for the dish on the bill of fare called, ‘fillet de bouf et pommes de terre hachis a l’Hibernais,’ and you...

read more
Frank Butler

Frank Butler

Frank Butler, Annie Oakley’s husband, has to be one of the most unjustly maligned figures in the American West. Films portray him as a philandering...

read more
The Elusive Outlaw

The Elusive Outlaw

I first read about Tap Duncan when I was eight years old. My parents gave me a book about Old West outlaws, lawmen and gunfighters (which I loved...

read more
E.M. Horton

E.M. Horton

“His throne was a saddle horse and his sceptre a six-shooter.... He was truly typical of the Old West, of uncompromising attitude with the lawless...

read more